Solid bamboo cutlery sits outside the ban for one reason: the definition of plastic. The same definition disqualifies most moulded bamboo-fibre cutlery. How to tell which one you are buying.
European buyers are already sending thirty-page supplier questionnaires. Which answers a bamboo factory can produce, which it cannot, and why overclaiming traceability is the dangerous option.
Bamboo is not one material but four constructions, each with a different adhesive load. Which formaldehyde regime applies, which test method governs, and what the purchase order must say.
Recyclability by design, minimisation, empty space and recycled content all reach the packaging around a bamboo SKU. An audit you can run this month, and the claims that will not survive a buyer's review.
Bamboo's botany does not decide EUDR scope — its HS classification does. How the product-list logic reaches bamboo goods in chapter 44, what the due-diligence file needs from the supplier side, and a ninety-day readiness checklist.
The ESPR extends EU ecodesign to consumer goods, with furniture in the first working plan and a Digital Product Passport on the way. What the framework requires, why bamboo exporters are better positioned than they think, and the preparation that pays under any timeline.