Research needed to understand carbon footprint of hemp textiles

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Research needed to understand carbon footprint of hemp textiles

Industrial hemp was legalized in 2018 on the premise that it would afford new opportunities for incorporating sustainability into existing manufacturing processes. Non-woven applications are simpler to achieve, and early hemp product launches have embraced non-woven methods to manufacture products like insulation and landscape matting.

Woven textiles present a constellation of challenges, starting with raw processing and then perhaps more challenging, comes spinning.  

U.S. spinners have little impetus to modify manufacturing processes to ac...

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US animal fats and oils stable to lower despite rebound in soybean oil futures

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