Although bamboo in itself is self sustaining, in can grow meters in a year and after cutting it off it continues to grow. Bamboo is however not necessarily the material with the lowest eco-cost. The market for bamboo is for instance in Europe but if production is in Asia the impact of transportation is so high that according to a research at the TU Delft, Netherlands, the eco-cost of European oak might be a better choice. The best choice is of course to see if you can use scrap wood which would otherwise end up in combustion. Eoctimbers flooring is a good example of this. They also don’t make use of ureaformaldehydes and other harmful VOC’s which are suspected to be harmfull.
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