Explained – Why Industry Leaders Are Calling Hemp Plastic a Billion Dollar Idea
When you think about hemp, it’s easy to associate it with traditional uses like textiles or oils. But hemp isn’t just about that. A lesser-known way hemp is being used today is as a replacement for plastic – the troublemaker for the environment. Hemp plastic is an environment-friendly, sustainable, stronger and simply better
Every plastic garbage bag you’ve ever used still exists—somewhere (so switch to hemp garbage bags)
Why should anyone bother about hemp-based garbage bags? Two reasons (both perhaps already quite well known to you): We are using too many garbage bags. Every garbage bag that is made from plastic, will stick around in some form, for anything between 10 and 20 years. Let’s dig a bit deeper. Here’s a hemp garbage […]
Cotton Farming is Turning Land Into Deserts – Can Hemp Save Us?
We all love the feel of a soft cotton shirt or the comfort of cotton sheets. Since the Egyptian and Indus Valley civilisations, cotton has been a part of our lives, for thousands of years. Still, now is perhaps the best (as well as the last) opportunity for us to appreciate why the hemp versus […]
How Hemp Fabrics Are Made
Before we tell you how to make hemp fabric, let’s showcase a bit of hemp’s history.Hemp for Victory. That is a black and white movie directed by Raymond Evans and produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1942. The film urges American farmers to grow to help in the U.S. war efforts. The […]
