For thousands of years, jute (a type of natural vegetable fiber)
has been used to make products such as rope, twine, hessian
cloth, and much more. Jute leaves and roots have even been used
as food and a medicine in parts of Bangladesh and India. Despite
its well established past, jute still hasn’t realized its full
potential on the worldwide market - especially in the developed
countries. Hopefully this will change. Here are 4 applications
where jute has enormous potential. Demand for paper keeps
growing every year. In 2003, the Certified Forest Products
Council said: Worldwide demand for paper – the single largest
use of wood fibre – is five times what it was in the 1950s. This
number is expected to double again over the next 50 years. The
problem here is that, more and more trees are being cut down to
meet this increasing demand. Unless something is done about this
(and fast), we’ll run out of forests. Jute can be used to make
high quality and specialized paper. Jute plants grow extremely
fast, and produces