woven bamboo floor
woven bamboo floor
woven bamboo floor
Much has been written about the benefits of bamboo. People in Asia have known for centuries about the amazing properties of bamboo, but it is only recently that the West has started to pay attention to the many consumer benefits that are to be had from commercially grown bamboo.
Bamboo is not a fad. Far from it. The Chinese have been painting bamboo and composition poems about bamboo for centuries. The Japanese used bamboo to re-green Hiroshima after the A-bomb attack in August 1945. And now scientists are beginning to realize just how useful bamboo is.
Bamboo is the quickest growing species of grass in the world. It reaches maturity in just 4 or 5 years. It self-propagates through a root system so it doesn’t need to be planted by hand. And bamboo is more water efficient than trees.
The list goes on: bamboo absorbs 35% more CO2 than an equivalent stand of trees. It grows much more densely than trees. One hectare of land can produce 60 tonnes of bamboo. Compare this with trees (20 tonnes) and cotton (2 tonnes). And when bamboo is cut, it grows back like grass. Only every time it grows back in more abundance, with greater biomass.
Bamboo is one of the few commercial crops in the world that can thrive without the use of pesticides and fertilizers because it contains an antibacterial substance called bamboo kun that naturally fights off pests and pathogens. There ar over 1,600 species of bamboo. It can grow under nearly any climatic conditions.
Bamboo provides a number of benefits to local communities. Not only is it a great cash crop but it also provides food, medicine, building material and weaving material for people.
And for the end-user, the consumer, there are several benefits. Firstly, bamboo is cheap and easy to grow and so the saving can be passed onto the consumer. Bamboo products such as strand woven bamboo flooring, linen, kitchen ware, furniture, mats and blinds can all be manufactured cheaply and the saving passed onto the consumer.
Secondly, bamboo is antimicrobial, anti fungal and prevents mildew. Thus there are a number of health benefits associated with such bamboo products such as bamboo linen (not bamboo rayon) and bamboo flooring. As more people every year develop allergies it is becoming more important to produce antimicrobial products.
And finally, bamboo products allow the consumer to be a green consumer. The ability to buy a product that has helped absorb CO2, provided income for poor communities and that hasn’t destroyed the soil or used vast amounts of precious water is a welcome development for many environmentally witting people. Thus it is an important alternative to hardwood products.
The farmer benefits, nature benefits, trees benefit and the consumer benefits. What more could we ask for?
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