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Bamboo clothes, bedding and bath products are super soft and absorb moisture quickly. It is a soft substitute for silk.
Bamboo’s porous fibers make a cloth that breathes. Bamboo clothing can dry in half the time of cotton, and can be worn year round, providing additional warmth in winter and cooling in summer.
Bamboo is a renewable resource. It is one of the fastest growing woody plants and regenerates naturally. Trees are typically harvested every 40 – 200 years. Bamboo (a grass) can be planted, grown to maturity and harvested all in a period of less than 10 years.
Bamboo forests clean the air. Bamboo can sequester four times more CO2 than trees, making it very effective at scrubbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Bamboo removes CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis by using carbon as an energy source and converting it into plant tissue, which releases oxygen (O2) as a by-product.
Bamboo requires very little water to grow. There is sound evidence that the water-use efficiency of bamboo is twice that of trees. Compare bamboo to cotton, which is a thirsty crop and can take up to 20,000 liters of water to produce 1 kg of cotton. Some estimates indicate that cotton is the largest user of water among all agricultural commodities.
Bamboo grows organically without the use of fertilizers or pesticides. Cotton uses one third of a pound of pesticides to grow enough cotton to make just one T-shirt. Only 2.4 percent of the world’s cropland is planted with cotton, yet cotton accounts for nearly 25 percent of the world’s insecticide market and 11 percent of the sale of global pesticides. Many of these pesticides are hazardous and toxic. Some were initially developed for warfare.
Bamboo produces oxygen and bamboo forests release 35 percent more oxygen than an equivalent stand of trees.
By Flek Davez on Apr 26, 2012 in PRC Fashion and Lifestyle News.