Tuesday, April 7, 2015

What You Can Get From 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.

An example of a plant that can produce illegal drugs would be cannabis. However, the said plant in itself is not entirely a bad thing. If it is grown to help with the economy, then it has its many uses to boast of. You can count on the industrial hemp Pennsylvania pilot program to prove these uses. Here are some of those uses you can get out of the plant.

First, you can count on this plan to produce clothing. Clothing is one of the essentials of life. Through the said plant, you can get a quality raw material that can be used to create textiles. Even in the past, the said raw material has been used by people to create the textiles where durable clothing were derived from.

Food and beverages. You will find the said plants to be a good source of raw materials to make food and beverages. You can use the seed of this particular plant to get oil. After all, one-third of this seed is made up of oil. You can also make use of this particular plant to distill alcoholic beverages, brew beer, and ferment.

You can make paper from this plant too. Most of the existing plants these days can be used as a source of pulp to make paper. The advantage of using this plant against the others would be that it is quickly renewable and sustainable. With this source, there is no more need for you to spend money on expensive wood pulp.

You can get building supplies from the said plant too. While paper and clothing are uses that you might have expected from this plant, it is definitely an eye-opener to learn that this plant can give good building materials. It can be used for insulation as well as engineered building products like pressboard and fiberboard.

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.

Through the oil derived from the seed of the plant, yo can then process it and turn it into biodiesel. It should be possible for you to do that, just like other vegetable oil. You can make use of the existing technologies these days to turn the oil into the biodiesel that you need.

Chemical cleanup is also possible with the said plant. One of the intriguing uses of this plant is actually to clean up any soil contamination. You can see potential in this plant regarding clean up for lands contaminated by harmful elements like fly ash, sewage sludge, and many heavy metals.




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