How to know if your bamboo products are eco-friendly
Bamboo is everywhere these days, bamboo clothes, sheets, baby products, you name it, usually with a nice eco-friendly reputation behind it. However, bamboo is sometimes not as eco-friendly as marketers would like you to believe. One downside according to this NPR report, is that the process currently used to make bamboo into fabric can be quite nasty. Bamboo is converted into fabric in a process using chemicals and solvents that are similar to those used to produce rayon. Proponents claim that the process could be easily improved and that the other eco-friendly qualities of bamboo should weigh in and most likely outweigh the cons, at least when bamboo is compared to cotton.
Mary Logan Barmeyer of The Green Guide lets us in on how to know if a bamboo product truly is green (or greener than another); look for the Oeko-Tek certification. Oeko-Tek certification identifies textiles that are free of processing chemicals, although it does not ensure the environmental soundness of the entire manufacturing process.
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