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Warpy

(111,141 posts)
3. Try HEMP
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 12:35 AM
Dec 2014

Legal hemp could knock out the wood pulp industry overnight, causing them to export their product to places like China and Japan, where arable land is at a premium.

Hemp also contributes fiber for textiles and hemp oil for many applications we now use petroleum for. It can be recycled and reused and biodegrades when the possibilities are exhausted.

My own contribution to less paper is using a tablet for book downloads. Now if I could only talk the companies I own stock in to going paperless. I really don't need yearly glossy magazines telling me how great they are. I'd rather they spend the money paying labor.

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