Environmental impact of Bamboo:
It grows fast.
- Bamboo is not a tree—it’s a grass, and it grows like one. Many species of bamboo can grow two feet or more a day.
- When it’s harvested, it need not be replanted, because it will grow a new shoot from its extensive root system, often 4 to 5 new shoots.
- It renews itself readily, unlike hardwood trees, which, once cut, are gone forever. Canadian Maple trees take around 40-60 years to mature before they can be cut down. Bamboo is an endless renewable resource.
It enhances the environment.
- Farmed bamboo stabilizes the earth with its roots, preventing erosion.
- It takes in greenhouse gasses and produces oxygen. In fact 35% more oxygen than an equivalent stand of trees.
- It can also provide habitat for birds and animals (though our bamboo is not preferred by pandas, and is therefore panda-safe).
- In nature, bamboo filters heavy metals from groundwater and removes four times more carbon dioxide from the air than an equivalent-size stand of trees.
