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The environmental impacts of the production of hemp and flax textile yarn

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This study aimed to quantify major environmental impacts associated with the production of hemp yarn using Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). A reference scenario of traditional hemp warm water retting was compared to: (1) bio-retting, i.e. hemp green scutching followed by water retting, (2) babyhemp, based on stand retting of pre-mature hemp, (3) dew retting of flax. overall, neither of the alternative scenarios was unambiguously better than the reference. The impacts of the hemp reference scenario and the flax scenario were similar, except for pesticide use (higher for flax) and water use during processing (higher for hemp). Bioretting had higher impacts than the reference scenario for climate change and energy use, due to higher energy input in fibre processing. Babyhemp had higher impacts than the reference scenario for eutrophication, land occupation and pesticide use. A reduction of the environmental impacts of hemp yarn should give priority to reduction of energy use in the fibre processing and yam production stages and to reduction of eutrophication in the crop production phase.

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hal-01460876 , version 1 (07-02-2017)

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Hayo van Der Werf, Léa Pauliina Turunen. The environmental impacts of the production of hemp and flax textile yarn. Journal of Industrial Hemp, 2008, 27 (1), pp.1-10. ⟨10.1016/j.indcrop.2007.05.003⟩. ⟨hal-01460876⟩
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