Split Bamboo
OK, it was a trick. The laptop computer running the Hannover Fair in March, with a shell of laminated bamboo around a fairly conventional equipment will not dent in the rising tide of plastic sold worldwide.
But it was a small demonstration of what can be done, and if proof were required bamboo's versatility, consider proven.
Bamboo is probably the only plant that provide food sources, building materials and tissues. One of the first light bulbs Edison had a carbonized bamboo filament. His strength, toughness and low cost make it a widely used material scaffolding across Asia. The bamboo fibers have high strength both in tension and compression. Its compression strength is about twice that of concrete and bamboo has more or less the same tensile strength to weight ratio as steel. And now there is bamboo laptop!
Bamboo ticks lots boxes for anyone who buys organic items for the home. To begin with, is a highly sustainable material. Some bamboo species grow over a meter every day. Local people can reduce both the need for carving, weaving, sawing or division and still have a big forest at the end of the year, as he had at baseline. On the issue of global warming because it comes from a plant source, any bamboo product contains a significant proportion of its weight in atmospheric carbon. Any equivalent plastic added level of carbon from the atmosphere!
Another point, because it is natural, bamboo has variations in the quality and appearance that make it difficult to use in most mass production processes. You can be pretty sure that a craftsman has been any element of bamboo buy. If you go to a trusted source, you also know that the craftsman has a fair wage for their work, and nobody was exploited by the purchasing power of the west. By Finally, you be sure the product you buy has not accumulated miles on his journey home craftsman.
With such strong environmental credentials how are you Surprisingly, bamboo products can also be very beautiful. Image of a bamboo box professionally, lovingly painted with 15 layers of natural lacquer. All natural, and really beautiful.
In fact you do not have to picture anything. Here's a link to a UK supplier of eco friendly gifts and decor. Check knife blocks to its range of kitchen accessories. Bamboo box, natural lacquer, filled with bamboo skewers to facilitate the containment of any form of knife. Fantastic.
organic, bamboo and recycled gifts in the UK: target = "_blank"> www.biomelifestyle.com
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