Monday, March 25, 2013
Hemp vs. Trees
Hemp has been proven to be a much more efficient plant to produce than trees in multiple aspects. Firstly, hemp reaches maturity after 100 days while trees can take multiple years. One acre of hemp produces as much as up to five acres of trees. Hemp paper can also be recycled up to seven times while paper from trees can only be recycled four times. Not only would production of hemp limit the amount of trees we cut down annually, if not eliminating the need entirely, hemp also has a multitude of uses beyond that of trees. The entire hemp plant can be used in the production of goods. This picture below gives several examples of what specific parts of a hemp plant can be used for, but this is not a complete list.
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I know you and I were talking about this after class, but I really like this. The only question I would raise to this would be, how would this effect water supplies growing this. For example like bamboo and mangrove trees had other effects that were not forseen at first, what would this do? I definitely think people need to be more aware of this.
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