Bamboo flooring is an excellent alternative that helps us combat the excessive exploitation of natural resources that threatens the trees from which wood comes, particularly exotic woods.
So, if you are trying to reduce your carbon footprint, consider bamboo flooring as it also is easily biodegradable.
Bamboo flooring is not derived directly from a tree per se, given that bamboo, although it shares a lot of features with wood, is a type of grass.
Bamboo is a type of grass that grows very fast, as fast as a meter a day, and can adapt to any climate.
That’s why, its renewability as a resource is considered to be another of its advantages while it could take over 100 years for a hardwood tree to mature to the point where it can be used as flooring, bamboo, being a grass, readily regrows and matures in roughly 4 years.
Although there are over a thousand species of bamboo, the kind of bamboo that is used as a substitute for wood is a species called “Moso”, with its largest reserve located in China.Read More »Have you heard of bamboo flooring? No? This is why you need to write it in your books.