Everybody uses paper. Why are we waiting for trees to grow only to cut them down to produce paper? It takes an incredible amount of time for a tree to grow, whereas other plants grow faster, why not use those plants
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Because there’s no money in indestructible, long lasting paper and cloth. Why do you suppose we still have copies of The Declaration of Independence, or even older texts and garments? Not because they were made with pulpwood fibers lol…
Hemp much is better for paper but DuPont got a patent to make it out of trees (required petrochemicals so it can be patented) and then lobbied congress to make marijuana (hemp) illegal. This is one of the main reasons marijuana became illegal.
I don’t know what the percentage is, but cardboard gets recycled over and over. For the potato chip companies, they re-use their cardboard boxes over and over to carry the chips around. When they’re thrashed, they recycle them. So that’s a pretty great product. Plus it bio degrades. Cats love card board boxes. Kids love cardboard boxes. Frankly, it’s a miracle product.
Hemp is the way. William Randolph Hurst was pretty much head guy when it came to the paper mill industry back in the day. He was also BIG in the newspaper industry. Pretty sure he owned majority of that industry too. So with him being almost pretty much in complete control of these two industries, he controlled what was on the papers. He slandered Hemp, along with probably whatever else he could. So that way the people would invest in his paper mill industry and think that using trees for paper was the way to go. Disregarding the fact that it’s terrible for the environment, trees take forever to grow just to cut them down??? When Hemp, grows exponentially faster and can be used for a variety of different things other than a tree. Look him up, Willam Randolph Hurst
Hemp and bamboo would be a more practical source than trees due to how quickly they grow, and the massive applications they both have. As consumer paper demand gradually decreases as our information and communication is primarily electronic, the hemp and bamboo can still be used for all kinds of materials like: Fabric, rope, building materials, medicinal applications, agricultural applications, and more. We could increase green space and renewable resources, and decrease net negative practices.
In the early 1900’s there was a huge push to switch from using trees to using hemp for paper production. These efforts we’re derailed, largely, by a man named William Randolph Hearst. Hearst at the time owned the majority of the newspapers in the US. Since he had already invested so heavily into the tree > paper production pipeline this switch to hemp paper would have cost him a significant amount of money. In order to avoid this Hearst teamed up with Harry J. Anslinger who was the Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The two of them used Hearst’s newspaper empire to run a yellow-journalism campaign about the dangers of marijuana. This campaign was largely successful and lead to the prohibition of marijuana as we know it today. It also quashed any attempts to switch from trees to hemp as a means of paper production, thus saving William Randolph Hearst a ton of money.
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