As the cannabis industry continues to pile up waste as a result of one-time use – everything from eighth jars to preroll tubes – the team at Sana Packaging is looking to chart a new course using plastic recycled from the ocean.

Like that nautical wordplay? Thank you. But in reality, we really are devastating the environment in recent years as an industry. And despite the heady ambiance traditionally associated with it, cannabis hasn’t helped. The carbon footprint around the production of cannabis is massive and two of the biggest factors are lighting and packaging. The fossil fuels needed for both would arguably be the biggest blight left on society as other problems with cannabis come to be treated as public health issues as opposed to criminal justice ones.

Lighting is a weird thing to focus on when chastising the cannabis industry’s carbon footprint.

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