[Greenbuilding] New Type of Chipboard

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Other than, OSB is simply CRAP and should not be used in construction, well
at least till we get Climate Change in check.

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On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:07 PM, John Straube <jfstraube at uwaterloo.ca>
wrote:

>  Corn stover is routinely worked back into the soil as it increases the
> resistance to erosion and increase organic structure and potash.
>  Farmers who don't look forward more than a year or two will bale up
> stover and there have been plans for using this for biofuels and other
> products but none that I know has ever been widely adopted.
>  OSB is often made from fast growing small trees like Aspen and the trees
> are fairly sustainable : no fertilizer or pesticides just good management
> and patience. Not a huge problem that needs to be solved.
>
>  Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.
>    *From: *sanjay jain
> *Sent: *Tuesday, September 16, 2014 17:00
> *To: *Green Building
> *Reply To: *sanjay jain
> *Subject: *Re: [Greenbuilding] New Type of Chipboard
>
>  > Has anyone seen any data on the trade-offs on this? On the face of it,
> pulling all the organic matter out of the soil to make building products
> will obviously require adding more fertilizers (and, perhaps, more
> pesticides) to get the next crop. This seems like the definition of not
> sustainable.
>
>  I'm guessing that most of this is not normally returmed to the soil
> anyway.
>
>  ~sanjay
>
>
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