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There is nothing weird about what "the Garbage Warrior" architect, Mike Reynolds is doing. Cleaning up the used tires and re-using them is their best use. Bamboo could be used for decorative ceilings, floors and walls, furniture, and garden trellis material. Concrete has a high energy of manufacture, and is brittle, but can be used in eco-homes like the Earthship and straw bale homes as foundation, bond beam, and as stucco, surfacing or sub-surfacing. Bamboo is often used for pins with straw bale construction.
Leopard777, you are sounding scatter brained, please try to contribute logically. Thank you.

Bamboo and other things like this will not be used by the majority of people so this will not save the planet. This is all so ridiculous and small minded.
Just stop overpopulation first, get rid of the atomic reactors and use solar energy to the fullest possible, only then we have a chance.

Hi, Nobi! I agree, except it is the coal fired power plants that must go. The Gen4 fast reactors need to replace much of them. They are very safe and use Gen1,2 & 3 reactor waste, and turn it into very low short lived and much smaller amount of waste. There exists hundreds of years supply in existing waste, then they can actually run on the low radioactivity of sea water indefinitely. Solar is only feasible in the sunbelt areas, wind in certain other areas, and tidal, and wave in still others.
Overpopulation must be reversed toward long term sustainable population. Transport and farming has to transition to non-oil using, non-CO2 producing methods as much as possible. Massive composting efforts, electric and biofuel-electric hybrids, sails, and close by human and animal power for agriculture. Much more efficient and water recycling systems, drip irrigation and a transition to steady state environmental economics. All are needed simultaneously.
Switching to more bamboo use and BS green cleaning products are not going to get humanity out of the population crash and thermageddon. It will take everything above, and more.

The only product I have seen is made from sawdust and recycled plastic. It is heavier and not a strong as real wood and costs more. It is advertized to last longer, however, and be permanently rot proof.
I would imagine that the energy to powder bamboo and mix it with recycled plastic would also make it more costly.
Then there are cellulose based plastics that are at least partially biodegradable. Bamboo could provide cellulose, along with many other plants, like hemp.

Bamboo is fantastic. In fact it my be the best building material ever donated by mother nature. It is strong like steel, light like aluminum, super green and biodegradable. It is cheap and replenishes itself faster than rabbits! I have seen scaffolding perhaps 10 stories high made from bamboo used all over Asia. On a scal of 1-10 I give Bamboo a 12!