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Company Makes Paper Out Of Wombat Poo
Creative Paper attracted worldwide interest for its paper made of kangaroo droppings in 2005. Well it's been four years and the best and brightest at Creative Paper haven't been sitting on their laurels. What's their great new idea? They have now launched a kind of paper made from wombat poo. Scat-obsessed Darren Simpson from Creative Paper says the paper is green or gold depending on the time of year the droppings are harvested. The wombat paper will be unveiled at an international paper conference in Burnie, Australia later this month.
God bless people with way to much time to sniff around trying to find new green ideas. I say God bless em, cause I don't think anyone wants to print on Womby poo paper any more than people want to print on Kangaroo droppings...
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It's the fact there is an international paper conference that made me scratch my head.
'nuf said.
And whatever you do, don't lick the envelope.
I think the significant part of the article is that the paper comes in Green or Gold ... Australia's favourite colours.
Lets use it to make toilet paper.
It'd be interesting to know the differences between various paper manufacturing methods and how much "energy" or whatever is actually used. In other words, is the creation of this "green" paper from wombat poo actually any better than using renewable tree resources?
I've always hated it when people lick their fingers when counting bank notes, or when turning pages in a book...
If this doesn't put a stop to it, I don't know what will.
It's a True WOMBAT!
Note: WOMBAT == Waste Of Money Brains and Time.
What happened to..you know, hemp?
Finally there is a solution for the worldwide shortage of cellulose.
Forests and paper mills are so 19th century - bring on the wombat crap farms!
only in tasmania
I'm going to make a fortune selling Valentine's Day cards made out of wombat poo paper. Imagine sending this beautiful poem:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
This card is made
Out of wombat poo
Instant success! Especially if you hand it to her and say, "this card reminded me of you".
I'll be sleeping on the couch tonight...
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
:P
I would like them to try that with grue poo.
I saw a documentary about saving Indian street elephants, and the rescue center was making paper from dung as a fund-raising gimmick. Seemed reasonable.
I can't find the link to them specifically, but here's another group also working with elephant dung. http://www.mrelliepooh.com/
...is that they used wombat poo. People have been making paper from elephant poo for years.
http://www.poopoopaper.com/
This is as old as paper making. Fibrous shit from grazers and browsers makes wonderful paper and saves pulping the wood. In Africa I've seen paper made from elephant, rhino, giraffe and zebra shit. In New Zealand I've seen sheep and horse.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
For sending anniversary greeting to your ex! Accompanied, of course, by the obligatory dead flowers!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
That's exactly the type of paper needed for those morons at publishing houses. Because, you know, they publish crap.
Holly SHIT!
The US Department of Treasury announced today that all US paper notes will now be printed on Poo-paper; as a sign of their relative worth.
Finally, the perfect paper for government documents.
Don't you mean the poosibilities?
Gives a whole new meaning to "what is this crap"?
Or "this isn't worth the paper it's printed on".
Large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
The only tool that can be used to write on this paper is a #2 pencil.
This space unintentionally left blank.
They only inverted sides.
For the poo is usually not the substrate
but the printed ink layer.
Reminds me of moose garden that made paper out of moose droppings since 1999 http://www.moosegarden.com/404-16-112.html
"When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes." -Henry Miller
I think we're getting there soon :)
FTA: "Mr Simpson says they are careful to use only scats from wombats in captivity, because animals in the wild use them for communication."
And now, apparently, they want humans to use their poop for communication. Clearly it's a conspiracy by wombats, trying to take over the media...
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I can finally get rid of that pile in my backyard.
The neighbors were beginning to complain.
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Is it safe, have there been studies made to review what happens to your hands after 10 years or so of handling this "paper". I would be curious to see, you can get certain diseases from handling excrement or certain types, I would like to know the process with which they create it, is there a certain amount of processing that goes to neutralize the offending bacteria/viruses?
Most of my company's memos have been made out of bullshit for years.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
We can start selling hotdogs wrapped with "wombat paper"
Sounds like what slashdot should be published on. heh heh
Somebody should write this shit down.
Yea we all love to laugh at poo jokes. However it is actually a good idea. These plant eating animals do most of the work for us of breaking down vegetable matter into the raw fiber. The paper making process is in essence a big digestion system. So we just fill it in and clean out the nasty stuff, you probably have a good material.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.