Why do companies based in paper products (toilet paper, paper towels, plates/bowls, etc) use trees for their products, instead of faster growing plants like bamboo or hemp?

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Using plants that grow quicker and use less water seems like a better business decision to me.

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> why wouldn’t the companies spend their money toward absorbing hemp into their line of products,

Funny thing about hemp. It’s “pretty good” for several different products, but it’s not the **best** at any of them; in other words, for anything that hemp -can- do, there’s something else that can do it better and cheaper.

The economics just don’t come together for a lot of those use cases.