at home
Healthy for the air in your home, this countertop is formaldehyde-free and is food-safe.
on the planet
Bamboo is renewable and sustainably harvested from plantation-grown bamboo, grown without the use of pesticides, herbicides or chemical fertilizers. Teragren requires the bamboo to be sustainably harvested at maturity, this avoids product performance issues like cupping and warping that is associated with young, soft, and often inexpensive bamboo that is harvested much too soon. The result is a quality product and a plant source that will remain healthy, harvest after harvest.
Bamboo contributes to efforts to reduce global warming. Bamboo's leafy canopy releases 35% percent more oxygen than a comparable cluster of hardwood trees, especially when you consider that the bamboo re-grows and reproduces a canopy many times in its lifespan. In the renewing process, the plant grabs carbon from the air and holds it within its stalk and root system where, in nature, it is not released until the soil in which the plant decomposes is turned. Products made from bamboo take that carbon out of circulation. Teragren bamboo products harvested and manufactured correctly can last for many generations, keeping carbon locked up over the life of the products and helping to offset carbon usage that occurs in shipping products to market.
LEED Qualifications:
- MR 6 - Rapidly Renewable Materials (Moso bamboo)
- IEQ 4.4 - Low Emitting Materials - Composite Wood and Laminate Adhesives
on the community
Teragren is committed to quality, environmental responsibility, safety and sustainable business practices, including fair wages and safe working conditions. Teragren is a member of Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Every effort is made to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as possible. For example, selling unused portions of bamboo to other manufacturers to make other bamboo products and using shavings from the milling process as fuel in other parts of the process.
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