Hemp | 77“Hemp could disrupt the packaging industry with its sustainability benefts and widespread applications”a tree,’ says Kerr. ‘Another great beneft of hemp is what it does to the soil before its processed. It has a large tap root, up to 9-12 feet, so imagine what that does to a compacted soil and what that does for runoff prevention. That leads to reduction of water waste, better nutrients, holding on to carbon within the soil, increased microbes, and with all that Avery Dennison’s hemp paper comes in two colors, white and naturalcomes increased crop yields.’ However, mainstream hemp paper and small volumes currently and the volume Avery Dennison has also branched out other hemp-derived products are held back we would need to support a printing press into hemp. The company offers two hemp by the current limited supply. ‘When we is potentially millions of acres. We are substrates, one white and one in a natural, talk about growth of the industry, we are looking at larger volumes and there are green tinged color. Both are 25 percent up against input limits. I can go build a big other countries that have led the charge hemp, 75 percent PCR. Vanita Marzette, paper mill and there are trees available, the in the development of hemp because they senior product manager for wine and spirits, input is there. The input doesn’t exist on the were able to study it this whole time. explains the demand for hemp. market currently for hemp.’ But they are still small scale. Europe, for ‘I’m always on the lookout for more She continues, ‘Hemp is growing in very example, is supplying the majority of the papers that are sustainable. We are getting processing equipment but Europe’s size more and more requests for papers with and volume at which they will produce is organic ingredients in it. Hemp was one miniscule compared to the United States, of the ones we get a lot of requests so that is our next obstacle. But hemp is for, specifcally from brand owners and defnitely growing, there are seed plots converters who are working with those everywhere and test plots on what fber to brand owners who want to bring some of grow where. And there is a lot of lifecycle the essence of what is in the bottle to the analysis happening to prove that carbon outside packaging,’ says Marzette.footprint and that carbon footprint is The company launched the original, what brings hemp to the forefront of the natural tone hemp paper in 2019 for the discussion now.’ wine and spirits sector and added the white Tiny e Paper’s logohemp paper in 2020. There are no plans to Behind the name: Tiny e PaperCurrent market offerings expand its hemp offering. Despite these input limitations, there While most companies stay between 25 ‘Tiny e is a nickname my dad gave me are already several hemp paper options to 50 percent hemp and rely on tree-based as a little girl,’ explains Erica Halverson, on the market. Greenfeld Paper offers paper, recycled or not, for the remaining founder and CEO of Tiny e Paper. ‘He a hemp paper that is 25 percent hemp percent, one company is a standout in the passed away four and a half years ago; and 75 percent post-consumer recycled feld of pure hemp paper: Tiny e Paper.I started my company six months after waste (PCR). L&L previously reported that he died. He never had a chance to see Mohawk, partnered with UPM Rafatac to Tiny e Paper what I was doing with my company. create a labeling material composed of 30 Tiny e Paper, founded in 2017, makes 100 We also always used to talk about if percent hemp and 70 percent PCR. percent hemp paper. According to the we were on our right path in life, so the Printed on Hemp produces a hemp company website, Tiny e Paper makes its company name is the nickname that he paper that is 50 percent hemp and 50 hemp paper ‘out of hemp stalks and the gave me and my logo is an homage to percent PCR. The company claims the waste from CBD extractors, taking care of my dad. The brown line that separates benefts of its hemp paper include ‘45 two problems within the cannabis industry.’Tiny e and Paper Company is the path percent less energy used, 38 percent less To learn more about the company and my dad and I used to talk about walking greenhouse gasses produced, 45 percent its products, L&L spoke to Erica Halverson, all the time. Tiny e is on top of the path less wastewater generated, 50 percent less founder and CEO of Tiny e Paper. Halverson because that is me actually walking solid waste created.’ gained an interest in hemp paper after that path, because I feel I am on my L&L has also reported on Acucote’s seeing the volume of paper product wasted right path now that I have started this portfolio diversifcation into hemp. Targeted in packaging in her previous jobs. She company. Just saying my company to the cannabis industry, Acucote’s 60# founded the company in November 2017 name is keeping my dad’s spirit alive hemp paper is made of 25 percent hemp to be a solution to that waste problem. Like and he inspires me every day still.’and 75 percent post-consumer wood. Kerr, she is painfully aware of the lack of Jan - Mar 2022