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by BTCOG 2167 days ago
I find it interesting that nobody seems to know that hemp polymers and hemp bioplastics are readily available, and exist.

https://hempplastic.com/products/

I've held hemp plastic packaging in my hands in Denver, it works well. If we'd start ramping up the industrial hemp production it is also one of the best things for the entire planet for carbon neutral and even net negative in the long term. Cannabis is the highest consuming agricultural crop of CO2 on the planet. It grows at such an accelerated rate highly balances photosynthesis and quickly grows; eating CO2 like monsters. Turn the flower into cannabinoid extracts and foods, seed into food products, and all hemp stalk and pithe is then turned into bioplastics and hempcrete and various other wood products, like paper.