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Posted by Big Gav
Apparently the banana plant is useful for more than just bananas - the copious fibre produced by the plant can be used to make paper.
The perfect product for a banana republic (or should that be banana constitutional monarchy ?).
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This topic is particularly relevant to Peak Energy, as making paper this way will use maybe 1% of the energy of making it by pulping our old-growth forests! (and use no water or chemicals)
The company making this technology is just going public - or maybe the IPO has closed by now. www.papyrusaustralia.com.au
Full Disclosure - I used to work for them.
- Mitra (www.mitra.biz/blog)
(ignore whatever identity information blogger guesses).
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