Plastic saving trees was a crock of shit. One industry taking over another industry with lies and fear tactics. Like the paper companies hadn’t figured out sustainability yet. The true shame of it all is they buried the hemp industry to push paper. Imagine where hemp would be had it remained a world industry with constant investment in research and development. There doing it again right in front of our eyes, because creating an intoxicating drug is more profitable than making, paper, textiles, building materials and innovative bio based plastics.
One acre of mature trees (roughly 800 trees) can produce about
800–1,500 pounds of paper in a harvest cycle. However, since trees take 10–20 years to mature, this yield is not annual. Alternatively, one single tree can produce around 16.67 reams (8,333 sheets) of copy
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One acre of industrial hemp can produce as much paper as 4 to 10 acres of trees over a 20-year cycle. Because hemp matures in just 3–4 months compared to decades for trees, a single acre can yield roughly 400,000 to 800,000 sheets of paper per season, roughly equivalent to 4 acres of trees.
Hemp out produces trees used for paper production, not 4:1 but 80:1 because it takes twenty years to grow an acre of trees, while it takes 6 months to grow an acre of hemp.
Yet the paper companies sit on vast tracts of land and do nothing about this? The freeing up acreage of trees to be used as building materials instead of paper. That’s a direct result of the level of stupidity that is caused by fear and smear tactics being applied on a global scale. Almost 100 years later.