A bamboo bong is a traditional water pipe and filtration device used for smoking. However, bamboo bongs also offer a variety of benefits beyond their use as a smoking device. While bamboo is durable, unbreakable, portable, and aesthetically pleasing, it’s also one of if not the most eco-friendly materials available. Bamboo bongs not only outlive glass pieces and gradually influence the flavor of smoke over time, but they also make for an eco-friendly option that’s environmentally friendly. 

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Why Bamboo?

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Did you know that one cubic meter of bamboo-assembled components can reduce 249.92 kg of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere according to the National Institute of Health? Thus, compared to dimensioned lumber, engineered lumber, cement, steel, timber, and hempcrete, bamboo building materials have the highest carbon storage. 

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Bamboo is a crucial element in the balance of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the atmosphere. When bamboo is planted, it makes a positive environmental impact by releasing 35% more oxygen than an equivalent stand of trees. Bamboo is an effective carbon dioxide absorber as it absorbs above-ground carbon in addition to absorbing below-ground carbon in the roots. To a lesser extent, bamboo absorbs soil organic carbon too. 

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In areas where forest lands are degraded, planting bamboo is one of the first steps in the process of agricultural redevelopment. The speed at which a plant grows plays a role in determining how much carbon dioxide it can absorb at a given time. Bamboo can grow at a rate of up to 1.2 metres a day, thus making it one of the fastest-growing plants. And the bigger the plant, the more carbon dioxide it can absorb. 

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Not to mention, bamboo is a low-cost and sustainable plant to grow that once introduced into an area, can be adopted to further protect erodable soils. Bamboo currently occupies an area of 36 million hectares worldwide, equivalent to 3.2% of the total forest area in the world.  

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Bamboo Supports Wellbeing

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Growing and harvesting bamboo helps support the well-being of communities worldwide. Forests and wildlife ecosystems are crucial for delivering ecological stability and conserving biodiversity. These ecosystems breed diversity and life into our earth by ensuring that the air we breathe is clean and that our planet is thriving. 

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Bamboo has proven to be one of the most sufficient alternatives to conventional forest products. Growing in some of the most poverty-stricken areas around the world that are most susceptible to climate change, bamboo helps combat greenhouse gas emissions and global warming in these overly-populated areas. Bamboo can also be used as a versatile material for making clothes, as building materials, and for cooking. In China, it is frequently used for its medicinal properties.

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As a major staple in the lives of people around the world for food, fuel, and building materials, the production of bamboo also creates value chains that ensure direct income to rural communities that help manage bamboo forests. Bamboo farms create employment opportunities for thousands while also serving the land to work against climate change.