
Bamboo is the most Environmentally friendly product in the world.
Bamboo is a grass and not a wood, and is one of the fastest growing
plants in the world, with a growing cycle of about 4 to 5 years,
where as, it is about 15 - 25 years growth for most softwoods and
approximately 35 + years for hardwood.
Bamboo can regenerate by itself without seeding because of its
developed roots. With the developing and research, the use of bamboo
dose not destroy the natural environment. So using bamboo instead
of wood as a raw material, is becoming more and more popular and
is truly nature’s renewable resource.
Bamboo is strong and stable and is becoming the
new product for the 21st Century. It is a natural and durable alternative
to the limited supply of hardwoods. Bamboo is tough with a hardness
of 15% greater than Maple and 25% harder than Oak.
Bamboo is one of the widely used plant in the world today and
is used with many different manufacturing companies and in China,
bamboo is used everyday. Because of it’s strength and stability,
bamboo is used for the construction of houses, rafts, bridges and
scaffolding. Larger species of bamboo plants are used for water
containers and piping.
Bamboo is harvest from controlled plantations and the bamboo used
for flooring and bamboo products, is a species of bamboo that pandas
do not feed upon and therefore, no feeding habits are affected for
the Panda bear.
This is why bamboo is the best product available as an alternative
to wood.
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