Hemp Is the Future of Paper
Despite the prevalence of digital information exchange, paper is still widely used in North America, for anything from wedding invitations to ballot mail-ins to arts & crafts. According to the Forest Ethics organization, paper consumption in North America has declined, but global paper consumption has increased. However, despite the decrease in consumption, North America still consumes more paper per capita than anywhere else (see Figure 1 below).
Fig. 1: Environmental Paper Graphic. Annual Consumption per Capita. 2014. Infographic.
Because the need for paper can’t be expected to decline to extinction, we, as caretakers of the planet, need to look at making paper production a more economically efficient process than it is now. One way of doing so would be to find a cleaner, faster source for paper material than trees. Trees contain a relatively small amount...
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