Five reasons why
Bamboo is environmentally friendly
The most amazing thing about bamboo is how fast it grows. It takes only a year to become a harvestable crop, whereas the trees used in other toilet paper can take more than 15 years to grow.
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Bamboo is an excellent carbon sink – able to sequester four times as much carbon dioxide as trees.
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Growing bamboo is great for hillside soil conservation, especially when compared to forestry, which leads to extensive land scarring, loss of topsoil and silted waterways.
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Bamboo supports rural communities, offering a viable crop for smaller landowners and, being so light, causing minimal wear on roads and transport systems.
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Using bamboo instead of trees in single-use products, including Greencane toilet paper, helps reduce deforestation. Worldwide, an area of forest the size of Sri Lanka is chopped down every year, and a quarter of those trees go into paper products.