By: Rob Dobie

Rob Dobie — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 05:43:54 +0000

They really need to start using hemp fiber for pulp and paper, it’s way higher in cellulose and you get way more fiber from an acre than you do from 4 acres of wood pulp after several years growth. You also don’t need to use all the chloride and chlorine that produce dioxins one of the most toxic chemicals on the planet as well as the other toxins produced by wood pulp production. With hemp you can bleach the fiber with hydrogen peroxide that isn’t harmful to the environment. Not sure why we where not using hemp for making paper decades ago, it’s a far superior paper product and can be recycled more times than wood pulp based paper. You also have the valuable hemp seed and hemp seed oil as high value secondary products. We are already growing 50,000 acres of hemp in Canada now, we just need to bump up the production. We were only growing 4,000 acres in 2002 so the industry is picking up but is mostly grown for the seed right now to process into cold pressed hemp seed oil and high protein hemp flour. A great replacement for wood pulp and then we can let the forest grow longer creating more value in wood products instead of growing mono cropped tree plantations for pulp like we do now.

By: Elaine Garland

Elaine Garland — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:15:30 +0000

how do I sign up. You are a strong woman of science to make this statement. Thank you.

By: Donna Jones

Donna Jones — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:35:45 +0000

I wonder if they built a large settling pond, treated the water in it , then recycled it back into the plant would work?

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