It makes good paper. Kenaf may be able to be rotated with other crops , requiring less new land for production. Hemp and kenaf are being touted as great environmental alternatives to using trees for making paper. Disappointingly, they appear to be alternatives for high post-consumer recycled paper. Alternative fiber paper as a substitute for recycled paper hurts our ability to take waste paper to the recycling center.
Recycling is a loop.
We save and take our waste paper to the recycling center and we must buy paper made with that post-consumer material. This is the recycling equation. Buying hemp or kenaf paper instead of high post-consumer paper works against waste stream reduction. Only through the purchase and use of high post-consumer recycled papers can we truly address waste stream reduction. Without consumer demand for these recycled papers the whole cycle breaks down.