"this wood has been ground up into sawdust then mixed with reinforcing and binding agents"
Ah. Okay.
Such as? Conspicuously left unsaid. Hmmmmm. Well maybe it's an editorial choice for brevity, let's take a look at their website: https://composites.umaine.edu/biohome3d/
Hmmmmmm "bio-resins". Well, if it's not compostable, which it isn't, because otherwise they would just say so because that's a good thing, then it's just plastic with extra steps.
So no thanks. If you want an eco house you can make a perfectly fine house out of mud and straw that you can bulldoze later with no guilt whatsoever, not whatever this horrible shit is; where you're left with some awful composite material that nobody knows what to do with. I swear, if I had a dollar for everyone one of these awful ideas where the answer is secretly some undegradable plastic or polymer, I'd be a millionaire.
I think these environmental design journals have an obligation to follow a higher standard than this to be honest.
Worse than that, what has the wood been exposed to? Like all those folks who "recycle" railroad ties into raise bed gardens and ignore the fact the creosote they're soaked in is toxic and leaches out.
Ah. Okay. Such as? Conspicuously left unsaid. Hmmmmm. Well maybe it's an editorial choice for brevity, let's take a look at their website: https://composites.umaine.edu/biohome3d/
Hmmmmmm "bio-resins". Well, if it's not compostable, which it isn't, because otherwise they would just say so because that's a good thing, then it's just plastic with extra steps.
So no thanks. If you want an eco house you can make a perfectly fine house out of mud and straw that you can bulldoze later with no guilt whatsoever, not whatever this horrible shit is; where you're left with some awful composite material that nobody knows what to do with. I swear, if I had a dollar for everyone one of these awful ideas where the answer is secretly some undegradable plastic or polymer, I'd be a millionaire.
I think these environmental design journals have an obligation to follow a higher standard than this to be honest.