The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants of the grass family.
Bamboos include some of the fastest-growing plants in the world, due to a unique rhizome-dependent system.
Bamboos are of notable economic and cultural significance in South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, being used for building materials, as a food source, and as a versatile raw product. Bamboo has a higher specific compressive strength than wood, brick or concrete, and a specific tensile strength that rivals steel.
Bamboo is frequently used for cooking utensils within many cultures. In modern times, some see bamboo tools as an ecofriendly alternative to other manufactured utensils, namely plastic.
Eco-friendly and renewable resource
Bamboo is considered a renewable resource, as it is extremely adaptable, resilient and fairly easy to grow. Moreover, bamboo has a very rapid growth rate and does not require petrochemicals or artificial pesticides making it an effective and toxin-free alternative.
Antibacterial
It is commonly stated that bamboo has antibacterial properties – there is scientific evidence to claim at least part of that belief: bamboo inhibits bacterial growth.