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Old August 28, 2018   #23
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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie View Post
Part of the reason that hemp will not replace trees as a paper source is that a large part of the trees used for paper in the US are grown in sparsely populated, often swampy and scrubby regions of the southeast, land that is not well-suited to any other type of agriculture, whether from climate or lack of infrastructure.

What a shame, as hemp paper is quite good and doesn't fox as badly as the acidic papers used now in books and such.
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