Rubber tapping causes slight harm to the tree they're tapping from, by leaving scars on the bark of the tree from where the rubber was tapped from.
Annabel Herbener
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It is sustainable as the tree lives. Also, rubber tapping naturally fertilizes the soil round it so aids growth of new trees.
Annabel Herbener
your removing thin layers of bark.
Rubber tapping takes place in rubber plantations, which are in tropical regions such as Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America. The rubber trees are grown in these plantations for their latex, which is extracted through the process of tapping.
jun 14,2004 rubber tapping is hard work,it can start as early as 2 am.
It involves cutting into a rubber tree to get latex out.
From the plant - "tapping" rubber sap.
rubber tapping: they scrape the rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) tree for the sap which is rubber.
your removing thin layers of bark.
Rubber is a latex obtained by tapping the bark of the rubber tree .Turpentine is a distillation obtained from certain species of pine
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Logging (cuting down trees) tapping (taking rubber from rubber trees) shelter (home)
No, it does not affect trees in any way. Rubber tappers are sure to leave the tree unharmed in any way. :)
Rubber is primarily produced from the latex sap collected from rubber trees. This sap is harvested by tapping the trees and then processed to create different rubber products. Additionally, synthetic rubber can also be produced from petroleum-based feedstocks.