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Binding and construction materials: Plant Fibre Retting
ChingHao Lee
Dad: why doesn’t everyone build their house with wood and leaves like us? It is so much more sustainable!
Before plant fibres are used in such applications, the process of retting is usually employed to separate fibre bundles from other plant material. Retting is a biological process, involving microbial secreted enzymes to remove non-cellulosic materials attached to the fibre bundle, and yielding detached cellulosic fibres. The use of the plant fibres helps meet many of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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