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Green Store Inc
& Bamboo Products
Green Store Inc is committed to developing and
manufacturing beautiful bamboo products that:
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Reduce dependence on
dwindling timber resources
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Rely on renewable-resource
materials
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Adhere to stringent,
environmentally sensitive specifications
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Promote green building
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Help neutralize our
company's environmental footprint
Green Store Inc products, green
retail, green building, and LEED� credits
As
a pioneer in the bamboo products for retail and hospitality industry, Green
Store Inc has championed strict environmental standards. We have worked with
the U.S. Green Building Council to promote their LEED for Retail�, a system
that is under going testing and drafting. Because bamboo is a rapidly
renewable resource, all of our products contribute to LEED certification under
MR Credit 6: Rapidly Renewable Materials. We are working to have all our
products to comply with IEQ Credit 4.4: Low-Emitting Materials.
Sustainably harvested Optimum 5.5� Moso bamboo
All Green Store Inc products use only 5-6 years old mature Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys
pubescens) known for its dense fibers and grown in the Zhejiang Province of
China. With these specifications, we avoid product performance problems like
cupping and warping associated with young, soft and often-inexpensive bamboo
that is harvested to soon. As a result, Green Store Inc products are
exceptionally durable and our source plants remain vigorous and healthy
harvest after harvest.
Carbon sequestration: cleaner air, carbon offsets
In
addition to relieving pressure on degraded forests, bamboo contributes to
efforts to reduce global warming. Bamboos leafy canopy releases 35 percent
more oxygen than a comparable cluster of hardwood trees, especially when you
consider that the bamboo re-grows and reproduces a canopy many times in its
lifespan. In the renewing process, the plant grabs carbon from the air and
holds it within its stalk and root system where, in nature, it is not released
until the soil, in which the plant decomposes, is turned. Products made from
bamboo take that carbon out of circulation. Green Store Inc bamboo products
harvested and manufactured correctly can last for many generations, keeping
carbon locked up over the life of the products and helping to offset
carbon usage that occurs in shipping our products to market.
Environmentally conscious
specifications
Green Store Inc specifications
protect the environment around the world and in
your business. The durable
factory finish on our bamboo product line is water-based and solvent-free.
Green Store Inc proprietary manufacturing adhesive emits less formaldehyde
than allowed by U.S. OSHA, European E1,
CARB Phase 1
and Phase 2, and Japanese JIS/JAS (F**) standards. As a company, we are moving
swiftly toward exclusive use of adhesives that comply with LEED IEQ Credit
4.4 in all our products.
Positioned to do things right
As
a manufacturer, not simply an importer, we control our production process from
harvest to distribution. We have partnered with a group of part and raw
materials supplier in China that shares our commitment to quality,
environmental responsibility, safety and sustainable business practices,
including fair wages and safe working conditions.
Green Store Inc is a member of U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). We follow
the principles of The Natural Step program that focuses on applying basic
concepts of sustainability. Every effort is made to reduce, re-use and recycle
what we can. For example, we sell unused portions of each bamboo culms to
manufacturers to make other bamboo products and we use shavings from our own
milling process as fuel in other parts of our factories.
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