Bamboo Products
Many cultures all throughout the world have utilized bamboo for thousands of years. Bamboo is now seeing a surge in novel products and uses as a sustainable substitute for wood. Continue reading to learn about some of the most innovative bamboo items that you probably had no idea existed.
Bamboo can be used to make anything that can be created of wood. The advantages of bamboo, however, are that it grows remarkably quickly, that it can be harvested annually without causing damage to the plantation or forest or requiring replanting, and that it has some better mechanical qualities than conventional timbers.
Thousands of commercial bamboo items are presently available, and new, creative uses and applications are being introduced daily. This includes everything from food to medicine to musical instruments to textiles to paper pulp to fencing to basketry to kitchenware to bicycles...
