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The petroleum industry is booming. The world thrives on plastic and is powered by gas. But oil is a finite resource — America will run out of it and will need to have something to replace it with before it is depleted. The country needs oil for more than powering cars. Petroleum is essential to creating plastic items, such as computer keys and plastic outlet covers. And there is a renewable way for the country to get all of the plastic society demands — while cleaning the air petroleum has dirtied with hemp.
Hemp is a species of cannabis that does not contain any of the psychoactive chemicals that illicit species of cannabis contain, but its production was made illegal at the same time as marijuana.
But how is cannabis going to replace petroleum? It can be processed to make plastics. The Canadian company Motive Industries is testing a car that has a body made out of a bio-composite plastic made mostly from hemp. The car should be available for sale near the end of this year.
Motive’s president even addressed the fact that the company is getting a leg up on America by telling the CBC, “it’s illegal to grow it in the United States, so it actually gives Canada a bit of a market advantage,” which is very true. While the Canadians get to perfect this bio-composite that can be grown in massive amounts, American engineers are left to work with petroleum plastic, which will eventually no longer be available.
The best part about hemp plastic is, unlike petroleum, its bio-composite materials are biodegradable. BMW has is taking advantage of this by trying to find a way to make more recyclable cars using hemp plastic. In 2006, researchers found that 11.7 percent of total waste is plastic, meaning more than 10 percent of garbage in the world will never decompose. Sure, people can collect bottles and recycle them into benches, pretending they are solving the problem. But they can also just use hemp to make plastic and let the Earth recycle it.
Almost anything that can be made out of cotton or wood can be made out of hemp. A study done in conjunction with Washington State University found that hemp can be used to replace dry wall and wood paneling. These replacements were also found to have excellent thermal and sound insulating properties, as well as superior strength and flexibility versus their wooden counterparts.
A version of this article appeared in the Mar 21 issue of the Collegiate Times.
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As the Director of Editorial for a magazine called, The Hemp Connoisseur. I found this article to be great! Yes, it illustrated many uses of hemp which I am already very aware of but many others may not be.
In all, again, great job on giving your opinion and letting readers know the truth about industrial hemp.
Artie Bergeron
Director of Editorial, The Hemp Connoisseur
Artie.Bergeron@gmail.com
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