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What is regarded as eco friendly insulation? Eco friendly insulation products are roof insulation products that do not have chemicals or other harmful products in the composition. In fact in my book a eco friendly insulation product is a product manufactured from what would generally be pollution. And this does not mean products like paper and cardboard as there is a large market for recycled paper. So we do not see the point of calling paper cellulose insulation as eco friendly. In fact the more we blow this into roofs the more trees need to be cut down.
What is Eco friendly Insulation
In my opinion a insulation product that would like to be classified as eco friendly must be itself recyclable. Now thats a tough ask are there any insulation products that are that eco friendly? Absolutely the Isotherm Insulation is manufactured from PET plastic bottles. This is plastic Coke Fanta bottles etc. Now remembering that these plastic bottles would be pollution in land fill sites and our oceans for 450 years. The claim of eco friendly insulation gives this product the top award surely. Also take into account that the percentage of plastic bottles that are recycled is only a few percent globally. Leaving mega tones still as polution.
In fact because Isotherm Insulation is manufactured from recycled bottles it has the longest lifespan of all insulation products. There are no chemicals in Isotherm and no resin binders. In fact Isotherm has a natural fibre binding process. The Isotherm Insulation is Dust Free and Allergy Free.
Why Is Paper Insulation Not Regarded as Eco friendly Insulation
Well in my opinion i dont believe this based on a few factors that we will list below. Remembering as we mentioned earlier eco friendly insulation should be manufactured from recycled products. However the biggest factor is the product itself should be recyclable to be regarded as eco friendly insulation.
Recycled news paper with inks and pigments can’t be to healthy surely.
A chemical composition of up to 25% must be added to give fire retardancy including rodent repelants.
Could this fine paper dust like insulation be realistically safe?
Can the Cellulose paper insulation be recycled? The answer is no it can’t be recycled and this we know as we remove tons of the paper insulation out of homes through out South Africa. The installers of the so called eco insulation will not take this from us as we have offered. Instead this eco friendly type insulation must be dumped at a hazardous chemical site Fisserhok.
How much of this mega tons of paper could have be re-used as recycled paper products etc.
This means because this product can’t be recycled more forests would need to be cut down to accommodate this.
Our environment is on a knife edge with the ozone layer and our planet under pressure. Rain forests are an important part of the environment.
Today more than ever we are told not to print unless it is necessary.
How Effective Is Fine Paper Dust Insulation
Simply put with the winds in the Cape and the two months of rain in winter i would say not effective. Our lead time on removing these so called eco friendly insulation products is almost 6 weeks. In many homes we find the insulation has piled up on one side of the home. With the wind and very little on the other side of the home.
The other problem that we face is that the paper absorbs water and becomes very heavy with an inevitable ceiling collapse. We have removed paper blown in insulation from many homes were and expensive ceiling collapse has occurred. Remember when this happens your loved ones or little ones could be trapped under this lot as it comes down. Further to that there can and will be damage to appliances Tvs Hi Fis etc.