Learn about all the eco-benefits hemp has to offer.

Could hemp heal the planet? Absolutely! Hemp can be immensely instrumental in reducing environmental damage and decay.

Most people don’t know that growing hemp purifies contaminated soil and reduces the use of water and harmful pesticides. Hemp is also biodegradable, sustainable, and recyclable and can be used to produce viable, ecological alternatives to plastics, cotton, wood, petroleum fuel, and concrete. Even fewer know that hemp-based nano carbons can make faster supercapacitors.

This quick read covers everything you need to know about how hemp is good for the environment and how this ancient cash crop can bring us into a more balanced relationship with nature.

How Hemp Heals The Soil

Growing hemp is great for the surrounding soil because It purifies the soil from contaminants and leaves the dirt healthier and rejuvenated.

The hemp plant is incredibly hearty and robust and therefore unlike corn, wheat, and cotton does not require the use of harmful pesticides or fertilizers that can harm and contaminate the soil and nearby crops.

Hemp’s strong roots reach deep down for nutrients, helping aerate the soil by introducing oxygen and letting bad gasses out.

Aerating the soil helps roots grow deeper, creating stronger plants that require less watering. The aeration also prevents soil compaction, increasing the biodiversity of the living soil matter.

Not only can hemp improve soil quality, but it can also cleanse the soil from toxic pollutants and contaminants. Known as phytoremediation, the process is attributed to the plant’s bioaccumulation properties, which allow.

hemp to absorb and neutralize different types of toxic chemicals in the soil through its roots.

After the nuclear disaster in Ukraine that left high concentrations of harmful metal toxins such as lead and plutonium in the soil, scientists decided to plant hemp to test hemp’s ability to extract heavy metals from the contaminated fields near Chernobyl.

In 2001, a team of researchers confirmed the incredible results, revealing that hemp reduced the amount of lead, cadmium, and nickel from a plot of land contaminated with sewage sludge.

Is Hemp Better Than Paper or Plastic?

Believe it or not, hemp can be used to make various types of paper, plastic, and carton-type products that are viable alternatives to unsustainable plastic and paper products.

Unfortunately, hemp manufacturing is still more expensive than plastic manufacturing, making it hard to make the switch. Hemp’s formidable properties and strong fibers make it difficult to harvest and process especially with existing tools, machinery, and equipment. Labor intensive, hemp production is costly and sometimes unpredictable, which creates barriers that have kept hemp plastics from replacing petroleum-based plastics.

Nevertheless, some companies are already using plant-based hemp plastics to manufacture cars, boats, and also musical instruments.

Hemp also produces arguably the strongest and most durable fiber on the planet. Using hemp fiber for paper, cardboard, and even construction materials instead of wood creates a better product and is better for the environment.

Hemp is lighter and cheaper to process than wood. Hemp is also 10 times stronger than wood fibers and 4 times stronger than cotton fiber. On one acre, hemp will produce four times more fiber than wood across a forty-year lifespan.

Hemp requires less water and sequesters more carbon than trees. One acre of hemp can absorb more than 8 tons of CO2 while one acre of forest will only capture around 2.5 tons.

Making paper from wood requires chlorine and produces nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and oxygen dioxide, all of which cause acid rain and environmental damage.

Instead, hemp paper is bleached with hydrogen peroxide without leaving any harmful byproducts that could damage the environment.

Discarded wood-based paper and paperboard products comprise approximately 26% of solid municipal waste in landfill sites, and are responsible for creating toxic amounts of industrial air, water, and land emissions in North America.

Making paper from trees is destroying our environment, but switching to hemp paper could reduce both deforestation and environmental pollution.

Hemp NanoSheets

Supercapacitors are similar to batteries in that they store electrical energy. And when they’re made using hemp-based carbon nanosheets they outperform standard supercapacitors by nearly 200%.

While graphene is typically considered the most efficient and desirable material for this purpose, it costs as much as $2,000 per gram.

Canadian researchers, however, have recently discovered how to make graphene-like nano carbon sheets for supercapacitors from hemp fiber. Not only does hemp outperform graphene when tested, but it only costs $500 per ton.

Using hemp in this way can improve how we store renewable energy with “environmentally-friendly supercapacitors” and will help reduce fossil fuel dependency.

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Hemp is a renewable resource that purifies soils and provides a viable solution to the modern epidemic of pollution from plastics and wood-based paper. Hemp can even help us make better batteries for our green energy infrastructure.

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