A Vancouver entrepreneur has transformed a most highly disposable object—the bamboo chopstick—into a viable business model, making trendily sustainable wall tiles, coasters, kitchenware, tabletops, and more. In a city that tosses hundreds of thousands of chopsticks per week, Felix Böck, 32, CEO of ChopValue, saw an opportunity. Initially, he floated several ideas for upcycling waste materials, susch as discarded building materials. It did not catch on—until his now fiancé suggested chopsticks. Catch on it did. The Vancouverite has since 2016 given a second life to over 40 million chopsticks that otherwise would have found their way to landfills. Böck partnered with some 50 to 300 restaurants in each city where ChopValue has reached, placing chopstick disposal boxes there, and harvesting (in Vancouver) over 200 pounds of the cheap utensil per day. Böck made this a viable business, producing fashionable and durable wall-tile adornments for restaurants, hexagonal-shaped shelves and other home …