# Bamboo Plant Certification: Ensuring Quality and Sustainability

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/02/bamboo-plant-certification-ensuring-quality-and-sustainability/
- Published: 2020-02-15T00:08:57-05:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

## Introduction

Let’s talk bamboo plant certification.  For the friction between the private sector
and environmentalists is long standing. So long and also is historically right. 
We’ve been down the path of crop commercialization before. Therefore it’s never 
in history worked out well for the environment. That’s as well as a new species,
a new crop, a new product.

Yet a silver bullet plant that can provide exactly what industry and markets needs.
It’s called bamboo plant certification.  And yet typically such plants go one of
two ways. Because the way of Jatropha. A way which after a few years of being touted
as the miracle plant of the biofuel industry, simply faded. Faded moreover into 
nothingness. As well as the way of [oil](https://greenlivingguy.com/2021/04/unveiling-the-health-benefits-of-cbd-oil/)
palm. That’s where industrialization boomed. With it came a mile wide trench of 
environmental devastation. [Oil palm](https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/12/palm-oil-is-everywhere-heres-what-to-do-about-it/)
is not alone. Especially from corn to eucalyptus. Because the majority of plants
that have undergone rapid commercialization fail. That’s because they have caused
a number of environmental and social issues.

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#### Bamboo Plant Certification

Therefore no plant is inherently green. And the bamboo plant certification is no
different. It can be grown well, and sustainably. All under which framework it can
be extremely positive. Or it can be the cause of deforestation. As well as the conversion
of natural ecosystems. Finally and the subsequent environmental and social degradation.

With a suite of new bamboo products seeming to appear everywhere. Consequently too
on an increasingly frequent basis. Therefore we started to look at how commercialization
of this crop might be different. This research kept leading us back to a [single company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoplanet_Bamboo_Group).
I mean that appears to be paving the way for this [global conversion of bamboo from a small](https://greenlivingguy.com/2005/05/global-warming-change-a-small-few-non-believers-say-no/)
scale crop turned into handicraft and maybe some flooring. Also to a real viable
fiber. All the while apparently maintaining all of its benefits.

### The growth of Bamboo

So why is bamboo plant certification forging a path that is likely to be different?
Simply, the foremost player currently responsible for the plant’s industrialization
at a global and commercial scale. Because it is setting a benchmark of sustainability
in front. Especially as they pioneer and grow the plant at scale. I mean rather 
than in their wake as an after thought.

[EcoPlanet Bamboo](http://www.ecoplanetbamboo.com/) did something few private sector
companies do. It went after, and actually received independent 3rd party certification.
Especially within months of its plantation operations. Consequently underway in 
Nicaragua.

#### Forest Stewardship Council 

Also and moreover the Forest Stewardship Council forest management certification,
validation and verification of the plantations’. As well as the climate change benefits
through the Verified Carbon Standard**.** As well as an additional assurance. Especially
of the social and environmental benefits. All through gold level. That’s Climate,
Community and Biodiversity certification.

Then in addition, the [Kowie Bamboo Farm](http://ecoplanetbamboo.za.com/) also followed
suit. All by acquiring the Forest Stewardship Council certification. That’s again
within a few months of the completion of planting.

### Bamboo Plant Certified Scheme

Of course, [certification schemes like FSC](https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/03/true-north-log-homes-achieves-fsc-certification/)
are not bullet proof themselves. I mean they often come under issues. Hey but they
have proven benefits. As well as it’s better than no external auditing at all.

Through these early moves the company seems to have set the benchmark. A benchmark
for what sustainability means in the context of commercially grown bamboo. As well
as why the plant should never be grown otherwise. EcoPlanet Bamboo is coining the
term “tree free” and “deforestation free”. All to describe their bamboo fiber and
marketing the company’s focus to only grow bamboo. Especially on degraded land with
relatively low inputs per ton of fiber output.

### Sustainably Grown Bamboo

These benefits all translate into added social impact. That’s with sustainably grown
bamboo having the ability to transform lives in underprivileged rural communities.

So maybe EcoPlanet Bamboo can [successfully scale its model of stringent certification](https://greenlivingguy.com/2012/04/uc-merced-achieves-gold-leed-certification-success/)
and conscious capitalism. Maybe bamboo is indeed poised to successfully provide 
the marketplace with a sustainable alternative fiber.

Organizations such as the [World Bamboo Organization](http://www.worldbamboo.net/)
provide an additional – non private sector. I mean a layer of attention to ensure
that as bamboo continues to get the attention it deserves. Because it is done so
in a positive and realistic manner.

#### EcoPlanet Bamboo

EcoPlanet Bamboo has put out a number of [highly informative videos](http://vimeo.com/ecoplanetbamboo)
that provide a clear snapshot. Especially of how their framework for bamboo is pioneering
a path as a truly sustainable alternative fiber. More then timber and manufacturing
industries globally.

They also run a [Bamboo Plantation Blog](http://www.ecoplanetbambooplantations.com/)
that helps both laymen and aspiring bamboo farmers to join them in their framework
of making sure that bamboo maintains its positive attributes.

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