Prevention and Control of Pollution by Bamboo
Bamboo is a carbon sequestration. Bamboo plays an important role in preventing and controlling pollution. As an important part of the groves, bamboos absorb CO2 and releases O2 by photosynthesis. Simultaneously they may obstruct and collect dust, clear the air and relieve greenhouse effect. It plays an increasingly more important role in the purification air and improving environment. The surface of bamboo leaves is generally rough and its ability for dust adsorption ranges from 4 to 8 g/m2. On the one hand, as bamboo has profuse foliages, it may block the airflow and slow down the wind speed. So the dust lost its momentum in the atmosphere and falls. The fugitive dust will reduce 50% after through the bamboo grove. On the other, the bamboo has a strong evaporation surface, which transpires massive quantities of moisture during fine days, creating a high humidity area around the bamboo canopy and grove surface. The dust become wetter and increase its weight, and moist leaves increased their absorptive capacity, so dust is more easy to descend and to be absorbed. After the dust on the leaves is washed out by rain, they are able to absorb again. At the basis of 1 hectare of bamboos absorb 1,005 kg/d of CO2 , absorb 63 kg/d of SO2, absorb 2,466 kg/d of dust, then 10,000 hectare of bamboos will absorb 3,898,000 t/a of waste gas, absorb 9,000,000 t/a of dust. Otherwise, bamboo may greatly weaken the noise by diffuse reflection, absorption and hindrance to the sound wave. According to the cited reference, a 40 m width of bamboo grove belt may reduce noise from 10 to 15 dB.

The Function of Biodiversity Protection of Bamboo
The environment of bamboo grove is the life place for many animals, plants and microorganism. The bamboo grove provides a good habitat, shelter and food resources to the animals. The distribution multiplicity of the bamboo species results in many kind of ecosystems which provide a rich habitat for many other plants. Bamboo offers some advantages in maintaining plants' biodiversity. Many other plants coexist in different type of bamboo groves and in different areas are comparatively stable, but each combination is unique. Especially in the natural bamboo groves, there are mores species associated to it which are representative. Meanwhile, the environment of bamboo grove is a place where is warm in winter and cool in summer, the soil moist and fertile, so it suits some unique fungus to grow, which are edible or suitable for medicinal or health care purposes.

Bamboo for Exhausted Landfill Site
So far, landfill is still a main mode of garbage treatment in most of developing countries. However, although the measures of anti-seepage, compacting, covering and collection to be taken for environment protection, but because of the differential elevation of landfill is high and biogas production is too much, so it potentially threat to the safe operation of landfill site.
In Turkey and Philippines, there were large landslides which caused the explosion and buried an entire village. In Chongqing Liangfengya, China, a landfill landslide caused significant casualties and property damage in 2002.
But in recent years, the Chongqing Tianziling Landfill Company took an active initiative by trying to recover the vegetation on the landfill site. They planted bamboo with over 95% of survival rate on the closed site. So that both may controlling soil erosion, protecting ecological environment. and enhanced the stability on the landfill pile. Meantime also have certain economic benefit. Covering with 0.8 m to 1 m thick of cohesive soil on the closed landfill site, and planting bamboos, will prevent the soil to be washed away. Besides, rhizome and root system just like a geotechnical net on the slope surface, prevent a slide cambered surface from forming. The bamboo with its strong root system tightly holds the loose landfill pile, so that enhance the stability of pile.

New Discovery on Bamboo
Buried under the giant stand of bamboo in northern New South Wales, two Australian soil scientists have made a discovery they believe will help save the planet.
From Southern University, Leigh Sullivan explain the signification on this new discovery. He said, “This is a really old grove of bamboo here. It's been there at least 50 years according to the aerial photographs. So, it's been there a long time shedding leaves onto the ground and when you actually look at the accumulation of the organic matter, what we can see is a really thick spongy layer, full of organic matter in various states of decay. Amongst the decay thousands of tiny capsules of carbon known as plant stones (a particle with silica structure ), invisible to the naked eye and virtually indestructible.
“Plantstone is just like a glass jar that has the carbon inside it and that gets deposited into the soil when the plant dies and, basically, it's very stable,.” another man come from the same University, Jeffrey Parr said, “the carbon is actually enclosed by a silica coating. The silica coating protects it from being decomposed in soils.”
“What we've found is that all this organic matter is accumulated within seven years, which means that the organic carbon's been accumulating at a gold medal rate - one tonne, per hectare, per year.” Jeffrey Parr said.
He further said that the plantstone from the sugar cane richer, and more carbon stored in
Until now, forests have grabbed the most attention as carbon capturers, but hardly any tree types make plantstones and they give off carbon when they're cut down. By contrast, plantstones made by crops and grasses are secured for thousands of years, and if the crop's harvested, then regrown, more new plantstones are created, and they're easy to measure
Sullivan said, you can grow a forest pretty quickly and you can lock up large amounts of carbon pretty quickly. The problem is that that carbon is quite volatile. If you have a fire, a disease, or you want to change the forest back to a paddock, you lose the stored carbon. With plantstone carbon we can actually get the carbon in the crop and estimate it quite easily before it hits the soil.
“This is a bit of a stretch, but if all the arable land on the globe was growing vegetation that had the same plant stone carbon sequestration rates as our best sugar cane, that would actually sequester nearly three billion tonnes of CO2 annually in the globe, which is about 20 per cent of our current rate of atmospheric CO2 increase.”

The Bamboo business is a sustainable business. The whole bamboo can be used. Bamboo shoots are edible. Bamboo poles can be used to manufacture flooring and fiber board, bamboo branches and leaves can be used in paper making, bamboo charcoal is a good adsorbent for sewage treatment.
Nowadays in China, the bamboo industry has been transformed into a whole production chain industry. There are 10 factories which yearly produce a sales turnover over hundred million Yuan (US$13,000,000), 30 factories which sales turnover is over US$7,000,000 , 300 factories over US$1,300,000. The national year production of bamboo reaches 1,152,000,000 poles. The bamboo shoots output amounts to 4,200,000 tons. The bamboo floor output reaches 6,000,000 square meters, the bamboo plywood output amounts to 1,673,200 cubic meters approximately. Bamboo industry may offer many jobs to people too. For instance, in Aozai town (a small town in Guangdong province) the bamboo industry creates 35,000 jobs every year.
We will guide the operator of the bamboo grove to develop the bamboo industry with the income earned from bamboo plantation. We will instruct them to establish the bamboo shoots processing factory, the bamboo floorboard factory, the bamboo plywood plant, the bamboo charcoal factory and the bamboo pulp mill. We will provide all personnel training, offer business plans and economic analysis report. Help the operators push the bamboo products to local market or even to all over the world.