Bamboo roots are not ripped out of the ground when the bamboo is harvested this leaves the topsoil in place on the forest floor and wildlife it supports is less disturbed. Bamboo can easily grow up to 1 metre per day, fully replenishing a havested area extremely quickly.

Wallbarn Bamboo is covered by EPD, the Environmental Product Declaration (in accordance with EN 15804) which is an environmental impact assessment for products over their entire lifecycle, including transport through to installation on site and End of Life.

Bamboo is also rated as CO2 neutral. What does this mean? The natural cycle of plants is that they absorb CO2 during their lifetime and release it back into the atmosphere when they die. By harvesting and processing the bamboo we are able to lock the CO2 into the material for its entire lifecycle / recycle. It has been estimated that as much as 1.662 tonnes of CO2 is contained in each cubic metre of harvested bamboo. Since the plant is not destroyed but simply cropped, new shoots will grow almost immediately, restarting the carbon capture process in the forest. Studies have shown that bamboo captures more CO2 than almost all wood species .