Esparto grass in Britain?

[clive Grazalema]

I really never knew how much esparto grass was shipped to Britain to make paper! (Thanks Nick for posting the image at iberianature to pique my curiosity)

I have updated the esparto grass article at Wildside Holidays to include links to info about the sale of esparto to britain etc… have a read….

https://wildsideholidays.co.uk/esparto-grass-stipa-tenacissima-esparto/

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[Helen Seville]

The wikipedia article about esparto is quite in depth as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esparto

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Breathe and try to be nice to people 🙂

[Rachel]

A team of researchers from the Gandia campus of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), in collaboration with the Austral University of Chile (UACh), is working on developing a new acoustic and thermal insulation material for buildings, made with esparto grass. According to the tests conducted, the properties of this material make it an ideal and much more ecological alternative compared to the most frequently used panels to insulate buildings from noise and heat – or cold. The results of their work have been published in the journal Sustainability.

Article here: https://ruvid.org/ri-world/esparto-grass-to-protect-buildings-from-noise-and-heat/

[Rachel]

I also heard recently (though I cant find anything to prove its true) that paper made from esparto was the preferred choice of tv and radio news because it didn’t “rustle” as much as normal paper! 🙂

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