[Greenbuilding] New Type of Chipboard

[John Straube]

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.

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From: sanjay jain
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 17:00
To: Green Building
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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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