Bamboo has countless uses. It is especially useful in pulp and paper manufacturing. It can be used for clothing manufacturing as well. It can be fed to livestock instead of GMO corn. It can be used as a building material. It can be made into a plastic. And since bamboo shoots are a nutritious food, bamboo is really the answer to global poverty.
BAMBOO
CAN ALLEVIATE
THE BURDEN WE
PLACE ON TREES
3,000 TONS
OF PAPER TOWEL WASTE
ARE PRODUCED
IN ONE DAY
Bamboo is grown without pesticides or fertilizer. And it sequesters more carbon dioxide than other standing trees - taking in 400 percent more greenhouse gases and producing 35 percent more oxygen.
