Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Advantages Of Supporting Industrial Hemp Pilot Program

By Aimee Schwartz


Plants are not illegal materials. They are to be grown with love as they can be of help to people and the environment. However, their uses must be monitored appropriately since there are plants that can be used to create illegal substances such as marijuana. The plants should never be used in making these harmful substances.

A perfect example of that would be the cannabis plant. The cannabis plant, when grown to help the economy, is not a bad thing. In fact, there is now a movement for this plant to be grown for the sake of helping the economy progress further. Such movement is jumpstarted with the industrial hemp Pennsylvania pilot program. Here are the benefits you can enjoy when you support this movement.

Clothing. You can surely get the best raw material for clothing when you make use of this particular plant. It is similar to any other trees out there. You can get textiles out of the said plants. Even from years back, the said plants can be a source of raw material where a durable textile can be processed from.

This can also be used to create food and beverages. You can extract oil from the seeds of this plant, especially since one-third of the seed is made up of the oil. The oil is edible and nutritious, with essential fatty acids. Not only the oil which can be used for food and dietary supplement, you can also use the said plant to brew beer, ferment wine, and distill alcoholic beverages.

Paper. Just like with other trees, it should be possible for you to get paper from this particular plant. This can also produce the pulp you need to make paper. With this quickly renewable source of pulp, you do not have to bend your back to purchase wood pulp for making paper. This particular plant is easily sustainable as well.

Building supplies can be made from the plant. You might have already expected food, beverages, clothing, and paper to be made from this plant. However, it might be an eye-opener for you to know that this can also create quality building materials. Materials for insulation as well as fiberboard and pressboard are just some of the examples for that.

Plastics. You will find this particular plant as a good source of plastic as well. There are many final products these days that are made from the plastic derived from this particular plant. There is even a car prototype made from this. Example of the basic uses for the plastic made from this particular plant would be CD and DVD cases.

Just like any other vegetable oil, you may take the oil out of the seed of this plant and process it into biodiesel. The technology in existence today should allow for the processing of the biodiesel from this plant. Pick out the right parts of the said plant and you can make the biodiesel.

Chemical cleanup. This particular plant is giving hope to scientist with its intriguing use for cleaning up contamination of the soil. It has potential in that matter. You might be able to use this to clean up the lands contaminated by fly ashes, sewage sludges, and heavy metals.




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