- DID YOU KNOW
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- Bamboo is technically a grass, not a wood product.
- Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on the planet
- There are over 1000 species of bamboo on the earth
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- Some species of bamboo can grow up to 1 metre per day
- It naturally has strong resistance to diseases, insects and climatic injuries
- Bamboo has a compressive strength greater than concrete and a tensile strength superior to mild steel
- Bamboo provided the first re-greening in Hiroshima after the atomic blast in 1945
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- Bamboo plantations reduce the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the main contributor to climate change
- Thomas Edison successfully used a carbonised bamboo filament in his first experiment with the light bulb
- Bamboo and its related industries already provide income, food and housing to over 2.2 billion people worldwide
- Bamboo has for centuries been used in Aurvedaand Chinese acupuncture
- Moso bamboo, the species used to make Style flooring, is not eaten by pandas
