| Can Bamboo Flooring Help Save the Environment? |
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| Written by S.A.Smith | |
 Bamboo starts to re-grow immediately upon harvesting, while some hardwood trees take up to 200 years to grow back. More and more home builders are using bamboo. Read on to find out why...and how you can benefit from bamboo, too.
Choosing a bamboo floor is an excellent example of how consumers can vote with their buying dollars to sway market demand to bring more environmentally friendly products into the marketplace.
Bamboo is a rising trend in home flooring and a great alternative to traditional hardwood floors. It is the most environmentally friendly natural hardwood flooring you can select for your home. It's a renewable resource, and has a greater resistance to expansion and contraction problems associated with temperature and humidity changes.
 Taking only five years to grow to maturity, bamboo grass is one of the fasted growing plants on the planet. And it can provide 25 times the bio mass of a comparable stand of trees. Bamboo is harvested every five years, and starts to re-grow immediately with new shoots, when harvested. Bamboo is also strong and has a tensile strength exceeding mild steel.
Bamboo flooring has become a trendy interior design statement with its rich and beautiful golden earth tones. Shopping around for quality bamboo is important, though. Make sure your choice contains no formaldehydes in its binding compounds. Many brands use cheaper binding agents that may contain formaldehydes, and this can cause indoor air pollution problems down the road as all chemical compounds will slowly release their toxins into the air.
How else can bamboo save the environment? Much of the hardwood species are being harvested in our global equatorial rainforests. Once harvested, these hardwood species often never grow back due to the thin layers of soil and lack of sunlight under the jungle canopies. If they do grow back it can take up to 200 years! Our global rainforests are the lungs of our planet and provide a significant contribution to our global oxygen production; second only to the ocean. By selecting bamboo flooring you reduce the consumption demand for rainforest hardwood materials.
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About the Author: S.A. Smith is a freelance writer, contributor, and editor of the Laminate Flooring Zone and can be reached at ContentMart.com.
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