Remember when you were little and you would grow sprouts on wet kitchen paper?

Tokyo-based artist Koshi Kawachi has expanded on the idea by making use of his old manga comics. Kawachi’s Manga Farming, shown here on display in a Nagoya department store is a creative alternative for recycling the millions of old manga consumed in Japan.

It almost makes me wish I read manga, just so I’d have something to recycle. I guess the Yellow Pages would work, but I’m not sure if the intricate root patterns would look as cool coming through pages devoted to party planning and plumbing.

Alas, back to the kitchen paper…

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