Hemp has always been looked down upon due to its relation to Cannabis in it’s habitual use, but it has many benefits to the plastic industry. We should use hemp in the production of plastic. Hemp is renewable source - unlike crude oil - it’s biodegradable - reducing land and sea pollution, requires no new machinery to manufacture and is 4 times more CO2 the air during its growth period.
Hemp, when in plastic form, is still completely biodegradable. When plastic is dumped into landfills, it leeches a toxin known as ‘Leachate’, which is created when water runs past the slowly decomposing plastics and collects the oil that it was made from. With hemp as plastic, it would breakdown faster and leave no trace of such poisonous toxins. There is also a problem with the amount of rubbish located within our ocean. The amount of plastics dumped in the ocean are causing a major buildup of plastic waste, spinning around in the middle of the North Pacific ocean, …show more content…
Your question may be why we aren’t using this already, which is a completely valid question. The answer lies in the authoritative power, the governments. Big oil companies don’t want to lose all of their profits, so they fight to keep themselves running. The governments also want their profit from the oil companies using their land, so it’s a win win situation. If hemp was used, the big oil companies wouldn’t have as much of a demand for oil, so their income wouldn’t be as much as before. If they go out of pocket, the government who owns the land doesn’t get any money from the oil company, meaning they loose what could be vital for them. Drilling for oil also damages the earth, not just because of the possibility of damaging the marine life in a spill, but also the rock below which has lain untouched for ages. This is destroying our earth, so we should be trying to fic it before it is too
Hemp, when in plastic form, is still completely biodegradable. When plastic is dumped into landfills, it leeches a toxin known as ‘Leachate’, which is created when water runs past the slowly decomposing plastics and collects the oil that it was made from. With hemp as plastic, it would breakdown faster and leave no trace of such poisonous toxins. There is also a problem with the amount of rubbish located within our ocean. The amount of plastics dumped in the ocean are causing a major buildup of plastic waste, spinning around in the middle of the North Pacific ocean, …show more content…
Your question may be why we aren’t using this already, which is a completely valid question. The answer lies in the authoritative power, the governments. Big oil companies don’t want to lose all of their profits, so they fight to keep themselves running. The governments also want their profit from the oil companies using their land, so it’s a win win situation. If hemp was used, the big oil companies wouldn’t have as much of a demand for oil, so their income wouldn’t be as much as before. If they go out of pocket, the government who owns the land doesn’t get any money from the oil company, meaning they loose what could be vital for them. Drilling for oil also damages the earth, not just because of the possibility of damaging the marine life in a spill, but also the rock below which has lain untouched for ages. This is destroying our earth, so we should be trying to fic it before it is too