Like a growing number of consumers we care about climate change and the bio-diversity of the planet.

At Bambienti we have come to believe that current levels of sustainable timber resources are insufficient to supply all of our domestic and commercial requirements. We also believe that an unaltered demand for timber based products inevitably encourages illegal logging. This in turn contributes to the degradation of land and those communities who depend upon it.

Therefore we decided to look for alternatives and chose Bamboo as the principal material for our products.

There are five key reasons behind this decision:

  1. Bamboo requires no replanting after harvesting and is naturally sustainable.
  2. Bamboo grows extremely quickly. Up to one metre a day in some instances.
  3. Bamboo provides natural resistance for a planet with increasing CO2 emissions. It releases more oxygen than the equivalent strands of trees, as much as 35% in some instances and is capable of removing up to 12 tons of carbon-dioxide from the air per hectare (10,000 m2).
  4. Bamboo can be successfully grown in the top soil of degraded land. This is something that is not easy to do with conventional trees. We can therefore use Bamboo to counteract the damage caused by illegal logging.
  5. By designing and making products using Bamboo we hope to support a necessary process that reduces our over reliance upon already limited sustainable timber resources.