This manufacturing technique supports various kinds of plant fibre, including coffee grounds, coconut fibre, palm fibre, etc.
Bamboo was chosen to be their main material because of its sustainability. Unlike trees, bamboo reaches maturity within 3 years, therefore collecting them adequately benefits bamboo ecology. There are 185 thousand hectares of bamboo forest in Taiwan, only 11 thousand hectares of bamboo forest is needed to supply the 600 billion straw usage in the entire world annually, the burden on the world’s natural resources is minimal.