Posted on 02/15/2005 1:38:41 PM PST by Lorianne
"It's a great product for tourists, but it's also something that gets our eco-friendly message home to a lot of people," said Joanne Gair, manager of Creative Paper Tasmania.
The first batch of paper has now been produced, but Ms Gair conceded that there was one remaining problem - finding a constant supply of kangaroo and wallaby dung.
"At the moment we are finding it very difficult to get the quantity of poo we need," she said.
"We are hoping the community will help by collecting poo for us and dropping it off in plastic bags. New or old, we'll take it all," she told the Advocate newspaper.
The company estimates that about 400 A4 sheets of paper can be made from 25kg (55 pounds) of kangaroo manure.
Ms Gair said her idea was inspired by the success of the elephant dung paper industry in Africa.
"I also discovered that in Scandinavia, elk poo paper is the stationery of choice in most offices," she added.
"That got me thinking we should create a uniquely Tasmanian paper from roo poo."
This paper sounds perfect for giving in your resignation.
This is from the Australian state of Tasmania. Any sane Australian will note that Tasmania is made up of "clean, environmentally friendly, peacenik, progressives" in other words, Australia's equivalent to Vermont (or Washington state).
Uh hu. So how much money does it cost to turn poo to paper,
Well, maybe we can ship them some good ol' bullsh!t from Washingtomn, DC....
I wonder if they have ever experimented with percolated Peacock poop.
Since Kerry 'reported for doody', he could have used some of this paper to make his campaign environmentally friendly.
They should make TP with it, so people can wipe poo with poo...
If they can figure a way to make paper from pig Poo North Carolina has supplies in abundance and if they can make it from Chicken poo the eastern Shore of Maryland could supply enough to rewrite half the libraries of the world.
All the sh*t thats fit to print.
I think it can only be made from animals who are herbavores.
Gives a whole new meaning to "Not worth the paper it's printed on".
Phew! For a moment, I thought it said "Roo roo"...
Well, to make conventional paper, wood or other cellulose sources are shreded and subjected to an enzyme bath to dissolve the lignin. The resulting mash is then washed and matted into sheets, bleached, rolled, dried, and cut. There are a lot of other steps along the way depending on the desired product, but that's the rough process.
It sounds as though 'roo poo is already halfway there. =]
Don't get it wet.
It would make for interesting TP...
I'm sorry I looked at that thread because it forced me to do a search on that joke...and the joke wasn't particularly funny.
Don't lick the envelopes!
I wonder if I can send them the contents of my cats' litter boxes...
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