From: Paul Stanford <treefreeeco@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth
Date: 08 Jan 93 20:57 PST
Subject: Hemp Paper Saved Forests
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!treefreeeco    Jan  8 20:57:00 1993


From: treefreeeco
Subject: Hemp Paper Saved Forests

	--> From: "Tree Free EcoPaper:
	--> Sender: Harel Barzilai

[This was (accidentally, I presume) posted to the "zmagazine"
conference (="newsgroup") on PeaceNet which I facilitate; I've deleted
it there and am posting it to PeaceNet's "norml.hemp" and UseNet's
alt.save.the.earth -- I'll also post to misc.activism.progressive
(MAP) on the UseNet which I co-moderate. -- Harel]
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Topic 37	Hemp Paper Saves Forests! 
treefreeeco	"Z"	 9:38 pm  Jan  7, 1993 
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     Did you know that the US Department of Agriculture Bulletin 404
concluded that a waste product from hemp, cannabis, makes more than
four times more paper per land area than trees?

     Would you like to have a sample of acid-free, nontoxically
produced, hemp paper, with independent lab certification of the fiber
content and other hemp paper product information? If you give us your
snail-mail, postal address we can send you a free sample to anywhere
in the world. If you give us an e-mail address we can send you our
electronic catalog.

     Please write us here at Tree Free EcoPaper, the world's only hemp
paper company.
  
       Our e-mail address is: treefreeeco@igc.apc.org .  Our mailing
address is: 121 S.W. Salmon, #1100 ; Portland, OR. USA 97204, or you
may call us toll free in North America at 1-800-775-0225, or, place a
toll call to (503) 295-6705.
  
     We have cases of 5000 sheets and reams of 500 sheets in 8.5" x
11" and 17" x 22", and we have note pads and stationery packs. We
accept mail orders from individuals, and we take Visa and Master Card
and checks and money orders. We deliver via UPS, or another shipper if
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orders we can deliver CIF to any seaport in the world. We can deliver
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     Tree Free EcoPaper is dedicated to offering the world a choice
from wood paper products and their pollution intensive production and
deforestation of our planet. Our product is 50% hemp and 50% cereal
straw. We are the only company in the world today that supplies
wholesale quantities of hemp paper.

     We intend to educate the public about the many ecological
benefits of hemp, including that a waste product from hemp bast fiber
production produces 4.1 times more paper per land area than forests
according to USDA Bulletin 404. Our hemp fiber is produced from the
entire hemp stalk; the bast and hurd are present in their natural
percentages. Hemp is the longest and strongest plant fiber. Hemp grows
more in a single season, or produces more biomass, than any other
plant. Our straw is a by-product of grain production.

     Our paper is the highest quality paper in the world, and while it
is considerably less expensive than comparable grades of paper, Tree
Free EcoPaper has many environmental benefits in comparison to wood
fiber paper. Our paper uses 90% less chemicals in its production than
any other brand of paper. Our paper is acid-free and therefore has a
shelf life of over 1500 years, compared to 75 years for wood fiber
paper. Tree Free EcoPaper is 25% less expensive than any other brand
of acid free paper, and theirs is made from wood fiber that has been
treated with zinc oxide to neutralize the acid that is used to break
wood into pulp. Since Tree Free EcoPaper is whitened with hydrogen
peroxide, no dioxin is produced, while all the wood fiber paper
factories can't even clean all the poisonous dioxin from their
wastewater. Our price is half that of the cheapest grade of 25% cotton
fiber paper, and our paper does not contain any wood fiber. In fact,
the cotton crop uses half of all the agricultural pesticides in the
world. Tree Free EcoPaper's ecological benefits are too numerous to
catalog in one short letter, but you can see that our value is
economical, as well as ecological.

     I hope our samples and information satisfy your curiosity and we
look forward to serving you. If you have any questions, please feel
free to contact us. Thank you for your consideration.