HEMP PRODUCT: Cardboard

SUB MARKETS: Packaging, Storage, Paper

Day 22 of our 31 Days of Hemp campaign highlights a useful alternative to a traditionally wasteful material: hemp cardboard. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], “in most parts of the developed world, packaging constitutes as much as one-third [1/3] of the non-industrial solid waste stream” and admits, “new ways to increase the recovery of secondary materials, including packaging and plastics in particular, are clearly needed.” Coincidentally, hemp can fill such a dire niche, as the Kentucky HIA has already pointed out in posts related to paper and plastic.

Other reasons to add [or substitute] industrial hemp in packaging materials:

• Recyclable
• Renewable
• Strong / Durable
• Biodegradable
• Insect Repellent
• Alternative to cellophane
• Carbon-sink / negative
• 3-D printer-ready
• Non-toxic

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