Why is Bamboo Elegance sustainable?

Bamboo is a fast-growing grass, not a wood. The stems are not cut down but shorn down to the roots. Therefore, the bamboo remains alive and can grow back immediately after harvesting. Crucially the roots are not ripped out of the ground when the bamboo is harvested so the topsoil is not lost and the forest floor and wildlife it supports are less disturbed.

Bamboo is extremely fast-growing, up to 1 metre per day, so it fully replenishes quickly. The harvesting can be staggered over a 4 to 5-year period so the plants remain growing even though certain sections of it are removed at intervals. This means higher yield from a smaller jungle footprint and no deforestation making Bamboo Elegance an environmentally friendly raw material.

EPD covers Bamboo Elegance, the Environmental Product Declaration (in accordance with EN 15804) which is a ‘cradle to gate’ environmental impact assessment for products over their entire lifecycle, including transport through to installation on-site and End of Life.

Bamboo Elegance is also rated as CO2 neutral. What does this mean? The natural cycle of plants is that they absorb Co2 during their lifetime and release it back into the atmosphere when they die. By harvesting and processing the bamboo, we can lock the CO2 into the material for its entire lifecycle/recycling.

It has been estimated that as much as 1.662 tonnes of CO2 are contained in each cubic metre of harvested bamboo. Since the plant is not destroyed but simply cropped, new shoots will grow almost immediately, restarting the carbon capture process in the forest. Studies have shown that bamboo captures more CO2 than nearly all wood species.

How to calculate CO2 capture in bamboo.

Bamboo Elegance can be supplied with an FSC® certificate. However, it is possibly not the most relevant authority as bamboo is a grass, not a wood and is harvested through annual thinning, not felling the whole plant. This means forest depletion or destruction is not an issue with bamboo. Notwithstanding, an FSC® certificate is available if required.

Because Bamboo Elegance is a grass, not wood, it is not included in the category of products regulated by UNI 11538-1

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