Hemp Usage as a Green Building Material, Plastic, and Fuel

Abstract

The growing apprehensions about increasing carbon emissions have made global leaders take robust action to prevent catastrophic climate change and global warming. Building construction is one of themany factors responsible for the increase in global pollution. Therefore, in this area, green construction is the most important step to reduce carbon emissions and other factors that cause the increased global pollution level. Hence, the revival of eco-friendly green materials could be a steppingstone in this way. Vegetal concrete construction materials based on biomass will be able to offer the beneficial solution of carbon sequestration in addition to the low embodied. These vegetal-based concretes are composed of an organic or inorganic binder and biomass derived from agroforestry industries such as rice husk, straw bale, hemp, kenaf, cork, and others. One of the vegetal concretes is hemp concrete, which has been extensively explored and researched, making it one of the best green materials for other purposes, such as an alternative to plastics and fuel in the form of biofuel. This chapter provides an overview of hemp-based concrete research, which is rapidly increasing in the green building sector, as well as plastic and fuel. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.