Why is hemp plastic so expensive,and why?
Why is hemp plastic so expensive,and why?
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acevedobenitez
Hemp plastic is expensive because there is not a “need” for it right now. When you can make traditional plastic for pennies, why would you spend over $2 to make the same thing with hemp? There is not an urgency to make all things plastic with hemp right now. But over time, if the market changes, hemp can be the same price as traditional plastic.
MarcLouis
Hemp plastic is expensive at $2.35 per lbs, far more than you traditional plastics or other biodegradable plastics. Due to the prohibition of the drug industry, the infrastructure required to produce hemp plastic is laking, making it hard to come by the necessary equipment. The main cost is that you must convert fatty acid chains to mold plastic, this is easier with fossil fuels as they are produced naturally. To do this with hemp, you have to manufacture the moldable fatty acid chains, and this is an expensive process.
Abe
Its because hemp products, for the most part, remain costly luxury items! Indeed, the fact is that the U.S authorized hemp in 2018 after a couple of years in researching facilities for hemp growing, affirmed that decades of drug prohibition mean we still lack much of the infrastructure needed to grow and process hemp into the plastic.
Jade
Well, it’s not actually all that expensive, but the hemp plastic competition for bioplastics comes from corn and soy. Both soy and corn get significant government subsidies so that they can make bioplastics at artificially low prices, so it’s difficult for hemp to compete.
Hempmaster3000
Hemp plastic is currently about double the cost of what it cost to make other plastic materials.
This is one of the obstacles for hemp plastic becoming mainstream and being brought to market.