To fully transform raw materials into charcoal the bamboo needs up to two weeks in the oven.
After farmers harvest the bamboo it is processed and placed in a kiln (or oven) and “cooked.” Temperature varies between regions (usually between 750 and 1,200 degrees Celsius). Growing bamboo to it’s optimal harvest age requires about 5 years. And, that charcoal is produced through a pretty straight forward process that involves applying heat to plant material. How Bamboo Charcoal is made Photo by Viviane Okubo on Unsplashīamboo charcoal air purifier bags typically comprise nothing more than the bag and 75 – 1000 grams of bamboo charcoal. If you’d like to know what’s in your favorite spray check out the Environmental Working Group’s website, they’ve catalogued most of the common household products. It doesn’t take long to expel the contents, only covers odor for a brief moment, and when it’s done leaves a lot of rubbish to dispose of. A “straightforward” aerosol odor spray has chemicals and fragrances, petrochemical propellant, a steel can, a label, and other plastic components. Now contrast that with any off the shelf spray or air freshener. That’s roughly the supply chain involved in these odor fighting miracles. Take a bag and put some bamboo charcoal in it… ship to consumers. Less Chemicals and Byproducts than Air Fresheners Side note… in just one gram of bamboo charcoal has almost 6,500 square feet of surface area. They just sit there soaking up odor in the millions of pores contained in the charcoal like a sponge. Just toss them into a drawer, stinky shoe, or gym bag and you’re set for a couple months. There is no on or off switch on these purifiers. Bamboo Charcoal Air Purifier Bags are Passive They just need a “recharge” in the sun every couple months to clear out the carbon’s pores. For a more in-depth refresher check out this article.īeyond that… bags last about two years. Oxygen is released as “waste” and carbon is retained in the plant. Photosynthesis separates the covalently bonded carbon atom is from two oxygen atoms. Just as a refresher plants use sun + water + carbon (CO2) dioxide to grow. Bamboo grows fast so the net effect of the carbon released in burning is offset in a much shorter period of time. That’s good because to create charcoal bamboo (or wood) needs to be burned. Since it grows so fast it has to sequester carbon from the atmosphere at a rapid rate. So… perhaps bamboo grows faster than weeds. But, there is a species that can grow 35 inches in a single day.
About 5 years for the typical Chinese varieties used in consumer goods.
Compared to the trees used for other charcoal, bamboo grows in a fraction of the time. Bamboo Charcoal is Sustainableīamboo grows like weeds, figuratively speaking. Charcoal and activated carbon are much, much more porous than baking soda. Bottom line… it’s better than pretty much anything at killing odor. It’s used to purify water, remove VOCs, and treat various kinds of poisoning. Humans rely on charcoal and carbon, and have for centuries, to remove undesirable compounds and gases. There’s no gimmick or questionable “science” behind their claims (cough cough… salt lamps). Bamboo charcoal air purifier bags are widely known to absorb (actually adsorb). They’re awesome, affordable, sustainable, and reusable. Okay baking soda is still a pretty good odor killer, but we can’t figure out why so few people use bamboo charcoal air purifier bags.
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