Echo sheets: A viable plywood substitute!
A short write-up and small photograph of the product (echo sheet), were published in a local English daily on 11th. April. This product has the potential to be produced locally and will be a very useful and echo-friendly substitute for plywood as well as plastic sheets! Interestingly, the product was launched in UK in January 2010, and after two years this is the first time that I came across this very interesting product which could be a popular and useful material for our housing, furniture and other sectors! The write-up also clearly indicated that it is an environment-friendly product since it uses non-degradable waste plastics as its main raw material!
This will greatly help us in cleaning up our environment as well as making a useful material out of this non-disposable waste product, now polluting our environment! It can be a ready substitute for timber planks and boards for the furniture and similar miscellaneous uses.
The biggest advantage of Echo Sheet is that it will save our trees which is the basic raw material for plywood! This will stop the indiscriminate cutting of trees for manufacturing plywood, boards and sawed timber planks, widely used in various constructions!
I strongly urge the government to see that the material is tested and evaluated by BCSIR and create public awareness about this potentially useful product. Our entrepreneurs and industrialists should also be encouraged and given support to go for manufacturing this product and help in useful recycling of all the waste plastic thatcreates problems for effective disposal and is a potential threat to our environment! Further, our information ministry should mobilise the print and audio-visual media, so that the product and its usefulness rece3ive wide publicity!
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