Can hemp be able to replace cotton
With the legalization of industrial hemp in the United States in December 2018, explosive growth is expected in the industry.
According to Reports and Data, the industrial hemp market may increase from $ 4.
63 billion in 2018 to $ 13.
03 billion by 2026.
The average annual growth rate will be almost 14%.
For a long time, industrial hemp was one of the most common spinning plants in the world, the fiber is called stump from it.
Unlike the varieties of hemp grown to produce drugs, the industrial hemp contains extremely few cannabinoids: up to 0.
3% tetrahydrocannabinol (TGK) against 10–20% and higher in narcotic varieties.
In the spring of 2018, the leader of the republican majority in the US Senate, Mitch MacConnell, introduced a bill on the exclusion of hemp with a TGK content of less than 0.
3% from a list of particularly controlled substances.
This proposal later entered into a single law on farming in the United States, which entered into force on December 20, 2018.
In addition to drugs with cannabidiol, which now appear in North America on every corner, hemp plays an increasing role in the textile industry – in the production of environmentally stable clothing.
The legendary manufacturer of Levi Strauss jeans has done a lot for this.
In March 2019, Levi’s in cooperation with the Outerknown brand released a small line of jeans and jackets.
The fabric in them is 69% cotton, 31% of hemp, and it feels pure cotton.
Why is it important? Because the hemp from which the hemp is made requires a noticeably less water and chemicals for growth than cotton.
True, unlike cotton with stump, it is not so simple to work: cotton fibers are assembled from a lush bud, while hemp is from a hard hemp stem.
Green economy Seven questions about the influence of the fashion industry on the ecology “This is a longer, hard and rude fiber,” said Paul Dillinger, Business Insider, Levi’s Vice President, Paul Dillinger.
“It’s like it doesn’t want to become soft, he strives to turn into a rope.
” Levi’s managed to create a technology that makes hemp fibers softer, allows it to mix with cotton fibers, while it requires much less water than creating a coarse of coarse material.
“It’s great that this responds to customers, but it is much more important that such developments help prepare our supply chain to the future,” said Dillinger.
He explained that this is not a one -time action, not a project with a pair of high -quality niche products, but a whole research process that will last for years: “We intend to place this phenomenon in the heart of our ruler, mix with the ruler, make part of the Levi’s portfolio.
” According to Dillinger, Levi’s continues to work on the quality of the resulting material in order to reduce the share of cotton to 50% for most products in the future, and some products are completely made of hemp.
He promises that in five years we will get a fabric, entirely produced from hemp, which is felt absolutely like cotton.
A hemp fabric that resembles cotton in all properties can be created in five years.
Observing the increase in the demand for cotton and the volume of the required water for its cultivation and processing, the search for alternatives to this material becomes obvious, says Dillinger.
Knowing the properties of the hemp, he did not even expect the decision to find here while Levi’Sne found out about advanced developments in Europe, where the industrial hemp is already legalized in many countries.
The company does not disclose its partners and other details; She only said that the development of the material ready to enter the market took three years.
When Levi’s finds a way to produce goods completely from “cotton” hemp, this will reduce the overall consumption of water for the production of clothing by two -thirds, Dillinger is sure.
According to the Stockholm Institute of Environment, to which he refers, now 3,781 liters of clean water are spent on the production of the subject of clothing, of which 2,655 liters are required to grow raw materials for fibers.
Green economy How to facilitate clothing disposal: three solutions But, despite optimism, Dillinger also called not to wind up the hysteria around the fact that Levi’s and other clothing manufacturers supposedly intend to completely get rid of cotton or to conduct a revolution in the industry during the day.
Many years of research and development are required, and then hemp, most likely, will be only one of several natural alternatives of cotton.
The idea is that hemp clothes-whether it is a clean hemp or a mixture of cotton-should not become some kind of chip.
Dillinger noted that he cannot speak here for Levi’s, but he added from himself that the marketing noise around the “cotton” hemp does not care much: in the end, the essence of the project is that the client does not even feel the difference.
Hemp clothing should not become some kind of chip, should not be out of the ordinary and especially fashionable.
The very essence of the idea is that the consumer does not feel any difference with cotton at all.
“You often meet with the opinion that the purchase of an ecologically stable product is a certain victim.
That supposedly there is a choice between something ethically acceptable and something just cool.
But in reality, you do not need to sacrifice anything to make environmentally rational purchases, ”Dillinger is sure.
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