Occasionally, a news item brings a glow of pleasure to my heart. We are all concerned about the devastation of native forests for wood for the products thereof, such as paper. By the end of the week in my house, the quantity of paper would account for a small tree. However, innovators are looking at other ways of producing paper.

“Sheep Poo Paper products have won a £20,000 Millennium Award for "social entrepreneurship".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/5315904.stm

A Google search of “poo paper” has raised many sites. South African and Asian elephant poo paper, Rhino poo paper, Lamb poo paper, Reindeer poo paper ...

Tasmania is producing Roo poo paper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4266857.stm

“In Scandinavia, elk poo paper is the stationery of choice in most offices,"
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4266857.stm

The production of Elephant poo paper-products demonstrates how eco-friendly this is - no nasty chemicals, or factory polution. The hydrochloric acid in the stomach would be sufficient to break down fibrous material. Read the “how-to” if you wish to make it at home.
http://www.poopoopaper.com/pootique.html

A young woman whose partner gave her an elephant poo paper gift was enchanted. She told me that the texture is beautiful ...

If you are unable to obtain the vital ingredients from your local zoo, I’m sure substitutes such as horse or cow poo would be just as successful.

China is producing Panda poo paper, and with the two pandas coming to Australia, the intention is to create a boutique industry here. A single panda eats from 20 kilograms to 50 kilograms of bamboo shoots daily, depending upon whether it is with child, or not.

With the need to save the environment, biodiversity, and endangered species, and along with global warming, poo paper would appear to be the way to go. We should be looking at establishing serious industries using this “technology”. It would create jobs and we would have an unending supply of raw material ...

Also with the quality of news journalism, the publishing of it on poo seems most appropriate ..

O just luvly.

First the silly tree-huggers and their ilk wanted us to drink recycled pee, and now they’re wanting us to put our hands all over recycled poo… and write our best wishes to loved-ones on it!!

Yep, I shoulduv seen it coming! (:>|

Danielle I had a little chuckle at the title and the idea of poo paper being used for poo is the best of idea of recycling that I have heard of yet. '

:D

I don't know Ludwig, plenty of 'tree-huggers' are not for drinking recycled pee either.

They are more interested in the unsustainable populations and lack of policy/forethought that got us to this point in the first place.

We all drink recycle pee. Get over it.

‘I love you honey

I really really do

That’s why I’m writing to you

On squashed elephant poo!’

(:>)

THANK-YOU! I am crying with laughter here!!

(Sorry Danielle, but the responses so far have really cracked me up!)

While this idea is absurdly labour intensive and expensive, it is not that great for the environment. You are still taking something away, and poo is great fertiliser. If it's a choice between poo and some wood on the ground, I think it is better to take the wood. Otherwise the termites will get it and turn it into methane, a powerful GHG. As Mr Hanky said, it's all about the circle of poo.

Now heres a business for some enterprizing person.

Never ending supply of raw material. abittiors, sale yards, horse stables, zoos, dairies, pigeries. Just to name a few.

If wood chips are made into paper then why not all the straw that currently goes to waste after wheat harvest, also the sawdust from timber mills/yards and joinery works.

Am sure we can come up with more sourses of material. Just thought of all the manure from the chicken and egg industries.

It's already put to good use. I've even bought some myself.

Just a thought to liven things up a bit ...

When you don't buy locally grown fruit and veg. But buy the 'overseas' variety... what do you think these products are fertilised with? ( - and it seeps
right through to what you're eating?) So what are you actually eating?

Writing on poo paper is the least you've got to worry about!

Hmmm...

Ludwig

Your poem ... the sentiments ... almost Shakespean ... I think I have fallen in love ...

You must admit that with the high rate of divorce in Australia there is a ready market for poo paper ... and then there is the market for those writing “irate and outraged” letters to editors, politicians, family members ... indeed the list goes on.

freediver,

Wood on the ground is necessary accommodations for other life ... Of course, many are ungrateful wretches ...

Possums live in our roof, and despite possum boxes, they remain there. From the fights, they hate each other ... then there is the fact that they wear hob-nail boots. I obtained a large bag of zoo poo with the intention of putting lion poo in the roof entrance. For some ridiculous reason my husband refused to do it, let alone sort through the bag. This is an ongoing a bone of contention ...

Banjo,

Brilliant! Are you a member of a Think Tank ...?

Foxy,

Wise as usual. Also with the chemicals added to food, when we drop off our respective twigs, we won’t have need of the embalmers’ arts. Alternatively, if we are cremated we will end up as fireballs. An aside: has anyone noticed the enormous fire extinguishers already secured at the back of the mourners’ nave in crematoriums? “They” know something ...

To further support Foxy regarding the contaminants found in food ...

British Food Journal Volume 53 Issue 11, pp.101 - 110
“We recommend, therefore, that the use of tobacco in rooms used for the preparation or storage of raw material or meat products should be prohibited by regulation ... (however) ...rodent and insect bodies and excrement are by far the most serious”

cont ...

Cited from Review of California Red Wines
http://www.sbwines.com/index.html

“Babcock Santa Barbara County Syrah (13.7%; Optimum Quad Possum) 2000: Med.dark color; deeper rich blackberry/Syrah bit simple very light oak nose ... a  rather simple/pleasant Syrah; not worth $22.00 ...

’Optimum Quad Possum’: This is a fine-print notation that Brian Babcock puts on some of his labels. My understanding is that it refers to the four dead possums he tosses into each fermenting vat in order to optimize the protein content of the must, making the wines much easier to clarify. His wines have really been on a roll the last few yrs, so it must be working.”

An Australian winemaker told me that the above idea is not sound as there are too many variables; However, he did state that possums occasionally fall into vats and they use, among other things, cyanide, volcanic clay and egg whites to remove “repugnant” matter ... he mused that finding a fox terrier dog in a vat was quite surprising ...

Ambergris - whale vomit - is used in fine perfumes.

A family on South Australia’s remote west coast has made a potentially million-dollar discovery
www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1554229.htm

Please Let It Be Whale Vomit, Not Just Sea Junk - New York Times (with a beautiful photograph)
www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/nyregion/18whale.html

Civet and other Musk - also used in fine perfumes - is obtained from odorous sacs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume

I would never support killing animals for such reasons.. But poo paper and similar products ...

Let us not be twee.

And you must admit there is a certain exoticism to the idea of elephant poo paper. This may be the closest some people get to experiencing these places ...

"From the fights, they hate each other

I don't think that's fighting Danielle.

The best option is to close up all the access points, preferably while the possums are outside. You can always leave one open for a while and close it off in the evening when they leave.

We should be allowed to kill and eat brushtails.

"Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet,
Writing a letter, or two.
She really was pleased,
She'd saved some more trees,
As her paper was made out of poo!"

Little miss muffet sat on her tuffet

Drinking a cold bottle of pee (recycled of course)

She thought of writing a lovely letter inviting

All her friends over for tea

So out she drew a pad of paper poo

And wrote the following words

Come over tonight my friends despite

My invite written on dried turds! (:>0

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Alright. That’s enough intellectual stuff for me for one day. I’m goin ta bed.

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Incidentally, I don’t suppose anyone saw South Park a couple of nights ago!

Obviously we were all pipped at the post. I for one can claim that every letter I've ever had from a Government Department was totally, 100% bull shite.

Always think on the bright side of life, Romany.

Whereas before this illuminating information came our way courtesy of Danielle, we all probably thought there was no limit to the number of such bullsh!t letters as you describe. Now we know there is a finite supply of the raw material for bullsh!t paper, or Bovine Mail No.2 as it is known in the trade, perhaps we can look forward to letters on it becoming a relative rarity as the globalized economy demand drives up its price.

As a little bonus, we also can perhaps look at pulp fiction from a more informed perspective.

I have always wondered why paper goes brown with age. Now I know.

I saw it Ludwig - the one about Bono. There's been some good new episodes lately.

The problem with knowing about this is that there are some letter I'd want to write (responses to letters from C$A for example) which I now want to use poo paper for that's had no middle man processing. The raw form says more than the words ever could.

R0bert

freediver,

You mean there is a possum BORDELLO in my roof!! And they're having very rough sex in stud-nail boots ... !

Oh! The shame of it ...!

As far as I know there is only one entrance ... but then again ... A BORDELLO !! Lion poo should also deter them. Possums and cats don’t “lunch” (well in the coloquial term). Felidae don't get bigger than a lion. Lioness poo would be best. Lions tend to bask in the sun while females hunt. I know lion poo when I see it, but alas, can't make distinction between female and male ...

Philip Adams stated that "fans" have posted him poo. Being in the public eye like he ... inevitable ...

Posters have found "poo" deeply inspirational ... the poetry ... It moves some to heights similar to ... "let me count the ways" ... or fields of daffodils ... Next - odes to poo ..

French printers' argot for ink is "merde" ... so poo paper ...

Tasmania's movement into roo poo paper seems extremely labour intensive ... This venture poses many questions.