These totes are made from 100% organically grown hemp fabric! With a relatively short growth cycle of 120 days, hemp is super efficient, and pretty cheap to grow, all things considered. It’s an agreeable plant, can be grown in most locations and climates and wherever it’s grown, hemp becomes a valuable and environmentally friendly crop (and it gets all the girls too. Lucky fibre). It grows well without herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides, as opposed to cotton, which almost half of the agricultural chemicals used on US crops, are applied to. Hemp produces more pulp per acre than timber on a sustainable basis, and can be used for every quality of paper. If we would just take advantage of this we could really substantially reduce wastewater contamination. Really. There is nothing this plant doesn’t do. Lip balm. Essential oils (my hyperactive brother takes a teaspoon each morning to calm his brain). Paper. Clothes. Apparently it’s as good a protein source as soy too, who knew, eh?! For more information on this remarkable plant check out http://www.thehia.org/ or http://www.hempnation.com/.