{"id":5270,"date":"2020-02-13T07:28:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2020-02-13T07:28:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:28:26","slug":"bamboo-plastic-is-it-really-eco-friendly-pandabode-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/02\/13\/bamboo-plastic-is-it-really-eco-friendly-pandabode-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboo Plastic, is it Really Eco Friendly? \u2013 Pandabode Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>boo acting as the fibrous filler. The bamboo fibres enable the material to be lightweight and relatively strong. The use of bamboo fibres as a filler is typically why bamboo plastic composites are often seen as an eco friendly option.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/pandabode.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/07\/bamboo-plastic-is-it-really-eco-friendly\/\">Bamboo Plastic, is it Really Eco Friendly? \u2013 Pandabode Blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I bought a coffee mug that I give to the barista so I don&#8217;t keep wasting paper cups and plastic lids. The mug I chose was allegedly made of bamboo and eco-friendly. I had no way of verifying this in the store, so wanted to check it out later. I was very dubious that the cup, which looked like it was a bakelite product, actually contained any bamboo. I contacted the seller, who engaged another company to manufacture the product, the manufacturers were relatively brief, but assured me that the material did contain a large amount of bamboo that was pressure moulded into cup. More research lead to the article above. Upshot &#8211; you can&#8217;t tell if the product is actually eco-friendly unless you are carefully lead through the development of the material. It may actually be toxic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>boo acting as the fibrous filler. The bamboo fibres enable the material to be lightweight and relatively strong. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-env","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}