10 Sustainable Uses for Hemp

9) Paper(9 of 10)

9) Paper(9 of 10)

Famous Founding Father Benjamin Franklin was one of the first to use hemp as paper in America in order to free the colonial press from English control, but the oldest hemp paper dates back as far as 770 AD during Babylonian times. The first Gutenberg Bible was printed on hemp paper. Hemp paper is very strong and long lasting, which makes it the best choice for archives and records. It also yields four times more paper than trees.