Poo Paper

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I saw this in the museum gift store yesterday: Paper made from elephant poo:

The idea is that you extract the fibrous material from animal poo and you can use it to make paper. Since the fibers are thoroughly cleaned, the paper is (supposedly) clean and odor-free. They claim they can get some 25 sheets from a single piece of elephant dung.
Would you buy it? Use it? Give it to your friends (or enemies)?
I can think of some people who might use it for the novelty value. But I don’t think I could bring myself to lick the envelope:

http://www.poopoopaper.com/social_stationery.html

This is the perfect paper to send a thank-you note for a gift of Kopi Luwak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwakcoffee

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I just sent this to Mike Rowe as a Dirty Jobs suggestion!

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Somebody sure came up with a far flung idea.

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I picked some of this up when I was in Africa 2 years ago. A local center for disabled people was making it and selling it to tourists. Note cards, covers of photo albums, that kind of thing.

I got one for each of the nieces and nephews and gave them at Christmas. It was priceless watching their faces when we told them what the paper was made of. The boys’ eyes lit up with excitement. The girl cringed.

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That’s a heart-warming story, ruined only by the subject and your choice of Doper name.

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Sounds good for the environment. Though “going green” doesn’t really seem to fit.

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What can Brown do for you?

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Always someone who wants to poo-poo a great idea:D

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Odorless paper from cow poo? Maybe. Bet they can’t do it with pig poo. That stuff staaanks.

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The San Diego Zoo had Dung Buddies for sale in the gift shop. These were small animal shaped sculptures for your garden made out of zoo poo. The idea is that they would slowly erode and fertilize you garden. I haven’t seen them for a while.

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Lucky poo paper! Poo is lucky in Japan. People sometimes have a small pile of plastic poo (often gold-colored) hanging from their cell phones for good luck. They also come in stuffed “animal” form.

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I know a few books that should be printed on that paper.
On second thoughts, it may be redundant.

There are a few places here in Thailand were they make elephant dung paper; if I remember correctly there’s one place were not only they make and sell the paper, but they have elephants that paint on it and then sell the paintings… no!, you sicko; they use paint to paint, not that!

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I have bought elephant-dung cards and sent them to friends in the US. Bought them at the annual elephant-polo tournament. The stuff is hell to write on! Very rough.