The waste water discharged during the bamboo-pulp papermaking process is not recyclable, ... a tributary of the Yellow River, in western Shaanxi Province had boosted the river's chemical oxygen ...

With moist air and fertile soil, Sichuan has been a paradise for bamboo groves. The province is home to over 1.1 million hectares of bamboo forests, about 70 percent of which can be used to make ...

Wang Wen, 43, is one of 38,000 bamboo farmers in Muchuan county, which boasts 533,000 hectares of bamboo forest. "Bamboo was sold at just 50 yuan per ton in the 1990s. Now it has soared to 600 ...

Environment Some bamboo toilet paper contains only tiny amounts of bamboo. Toilet paper made from bamboo is supposed to be more eco-friendly than traditional paper made from virgin wood pulp.

The bamboo farms in Sichuan that provide the fibre are not clear-cut and the harvested bamboo regenerates itself, unlike clear-cut forests that degenerate the soil and have to be replanted.