A groundbreaking new material made from upcycled rice husks in a zero-waste environment is giving homebuilders the option to reduce their carbon footprint while adding a rusting charm to their home’s exterior.

The product, called ACRE, offers the warmth and beauty of real wood with all the conveniences of composites, and is available as siding, decking, fencing, sheets, and trimming.

If any Americans were following the news during trade negotiations between Japan and the US, they may have learned, and maybe were surprised to do so, that US farmers grow 20 billion pounds of rice every year.

Each of those pounds are made up of hundreds of individual rice grains, each of which is covered by a hard husk, sometimes called a hull, which are normally just sent to the landfill.

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