Tag: Wood

We take on average 17 minutes to consume our meals. Which equates to something of a cameo appearance for chopsticks, given the distance they travel to reach our dining table – especially when their final destination is usually the trash. A Canadian startup is putting an end to this by providing recycled chopsticks with a thrill-seeking second life. Forget...

A bank card made of trees? If you didn't know better you'd say Pinocchio was doing some blue-sky thinking about the 21st century. But it's true: the first ever wooden credit card is here, supported by a sustainable search engine whose passion is global reforestation. The latter’s model, where trees are planted with the advertising income generated by search...

It seems that researchers at the Universities of Maryland and Colorado have the wood over their competitors – literally. Using a two-step eco-friendly bleaching method they have succeeded in making balsa wood transparent, a development made possible by the fast-growing mallow plant’s low density. The final product is not only more durable and lighter than glass but just as see-through....