New MDF plant - made with rice straw

There goes the cost of Rice Chex.

and rice cakes...

now what are they going to use as food stretchers???

Interesting...

Wonder if it will "Snap-Crackle & Pop" when it gets wet

1 hour ago, Stick486 said:

now what are they going to use as food stretchers???

 

Some cool looking brownies can be made from the scraps.  Not sure how well the icing will stick.

 

12 minutes ago, HandyDan said:

Not sure how well the icing will stick.

Use Gorilla Glue.

John

Actually if you read it carefully it will not affect the harvest of rice and chex is not impacted.  But it will remove bio matter from the fields and conserve water that is used to decompose the waste but most likely they will now need more fertilizer and that could affect the environment more than the traditional flooding of the fields.  We gain cleaner MDF the valley loses it decomposed bio matter which is the fertilizer for next year so new fertlizer is intoroduced.  

 

Must be a conspiracy by big oil to sell more commercial fertilizer. MDF is a terrible substitute for wood.

Herb

This particular mfg plant is situated to take advantage of the nearby rice production but, just wondering if wheat straw could be used in the process.

Or corn stalks, How about Cornboard"? Made from stalks and cobs.

 

https://inhabitat.com/corn-waste-transformed-into-versatile-building-material/

 

Herb

Edited August 15, 20188 yr by Dadio

That's neat, Herb. Thanks.

We used that Celetexboard during the war. not sure what it was made from, we called it corn board. It wasn't very structurally strong, but had good insulation qualities, compared to shiplap. That was before insulation as we know it today. Straw,wood shavings ,mill run sawdust,grass hay,etc. were used.

 

HErb

29 minutes ago, Dadio said:

Celetexboard during the war. not sure what it was made from,

spelt - Celotex...

bagasse or sugar cane fiber....

Bagasse is the fibrous matter that remains after sugarcane or sorghum stalks are crushed to extract their juice. It is dry pulpy residue left after the extraction of juice from sugar cane...

Bagasse is used as a biofuel and in the manufacture of pulp and building materials

The article says less formaldehyde.  That's good.  But recently there have been articles about the arsenic in rice.  So does this mean we will have airborne arsenic when we cut this new stuff?

49 minutes ago, JIMMIEM said:

So does this mean we will have airborne arsenic when we cut this new stuff?

OUCH!!!

26 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

OUCH!!!

Will have to monitor your dust exposure....same way you monitor your rice consumption. 

Arsenic can be found in many man made wood products, including MDF. A mask is always a good thing when processing that stuff. 

Some articles caution against using MDF in any infant or children's furniture. Others warn against using it for ANY indoor furniture. 

I don't use it for even shop projects, anymore. 

 

1 hour ago, Gene Howe said:

I don't use it for even shop projects, anymore. 

it was never allowed in the shop and no repair projects involving MDF were accepted...

8 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Arsenic can be found in many man made wood products, including MDF. A mask is always a good thing when processing that stuff. 

Some articles caution against using MDF in any infant or children's furniture. Others warn against using it for ANY indoor furniture. 

I don't use it for even shop projects, anymore. 

 

What do you use instead of MDF?

10 minutes ago, JIMMIEM said:

What do you use instead of MDF?

Depends, usually Baltic Birch or MDO. "B" grade ply for the shop....when I can find it.