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originally posted by: NthOther
Great. Another "reason" to cut down trees.
originally posted by: Mianeye
a reply to: AdamuBureido
indoor growers already solved that, methinks?
y'know aqua/hydroponics vertical gardening ?
i don't think you realize how much hemp needs to be grown to substitute for wood....
The USDA reported in 1916 that an acre of hemp produced as much paper as four acres of trees annually ,
Hemp paper can be recycled 7 to 8 times, compared with only 3 times for wood pulp paper.
Paper made from hemp lasts hundreds of years longer than wood-pulp paper, which decomposes and yellows with age. Hemp paper resists decomposition and does not yellow with age
Hemp paper doesn’t require toxic bleaching chemicals. It can be whitened with hydrogen peroxide, which doesn’t poison waterways as chloride and bleach--the chemicals used in making wood pulp paper--do
originally posted by: Grimpachi
a reply to: Mandroid7
Cool so gasoline and vanilla extract can be made from mulch or any trash wood, but it seems the paper industry alreadystrips out the necessary chemical in its process which makes it useless.
The solution: Paper industry needs to switch to hemp and the lumber industry that would have lost out because of it can now be part of making car fuel.
Everyone wins.
originally posted by: Mandroid7
originally posted by: NthOther
Great. Another "reason" to cut down trees.
Man, I sure hope not. Hopefully the giant piles of lawn refuse at the landfills could disappear though.