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HERO ID
8750795
Reference Type
Meetings & Symposia
Title
Hemp is the future of plastics
Author(s)
Modi, AA; Shahid, R; Saeed, MU; Younas, T
Year
2018
Publisher
EDP Sciences
Volume
51
Language
English
DOI
10.1051/e3sconf/20185103002
Abstract
Plastic is the world’s most adaptable material. From bikes to food wraps and from jets to pencils, you can make anything and everything from plastics. With the infinite number of uses, plastic also have some devastating impacts on our planet. Most plastics produced today are made using petroleum-based compounds that release harmful gases into the atmosphere. Waste solutions are inefficient, and harmful by-products toxic our land, water and wildlife. Yet, consider the possibility that there was a way to deal with deliver the greater part of what we utilize causes a negative greenhouse impact, is sustainable and biodegradable and has just about an indistinguishable cost to our present techniques. Meet Hemp plastic, an only plastic that’s 100% biodegradable in nature if produce by using only Hemp plant. Hemp plant consumes 4 times more carbon dioxide then other plants from atmosphere. The fiber we can produce from hemp is stronger than the conventional fiber we are using these days. This paper is intended to show numerous benefits of using hemp for the manufacturing of biodegradable plastic (HEMP PLASTIC) rather than conventional plastics. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences.
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Rusu, E.
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