Wombat Poo Paper

Posted by Alex in Animal on April 19, 2009 at 11:33 am


Those wily Tasmanians have hit upon a gem of an idea that lets them:

a) get rid of stuff no one wanted (i.e. wombat poo)
b) make lots of money doing it (make it into paper)
c) from people they don’t like (tourists)

Creative Paper manager Darren Simpson says the manufacturing process can be rather unpleasant.

"When we are boiling it, it does smell horrific as you can imagine, but once it has been sterilised and rinsed properly there’s no scent left to it. If anything it just gives you a nice organic smell," he said.

He added that it was the tourists themselves who came up with the wombat idea.

"As people were coming through and we were showing them the samples of our paper, they would throw questions at you like ‘can you make it from sheep poo or can you make it from koalas?’. And the one that kept popping up more than any other was the wombat."

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Previously on Neatorama: Tiny Flower Turns Pig Poop into Fuel, Elephant Dung Paper


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8 comments to "Wombat Poo Paper"

  1. SenorMysterioso
    April 19th, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    Why would you want poop paper?

    Do you use it to write break up letters or letters of resignation? Maybe an angry letter to a company that wronged you?

  2. Mouserz
    April 19th, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    I want me some koala paper too.

  3. Sassafras
    April 19th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    You can buy elephant poo paper as well:

    http://www.poopoopaper.com/

    Apparently their poo is quite fibrous and good for papermaking...

  4. laly
    April 19th, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    "And the one that kept popping up more than any other was the wombat."

    And the one that kept pooping up more than any other was the wombat poo paper concern/lobby...

  5. Jenny
    April 20th, 2009 at 1:21 am

    um, good for the environment i suppose? less trees to cut down?

  6. Gauldar
    April 20th, 2009 at 8:49 am

    @Jenny

    Sure, but when the poo paper people get wind of your support of their product, they are going to be popping up everywhere providing it to the populous. Now wouldn't that smell pleasant?

  7. The Foreigner
    April 20th, 2009 at 9:42 am

    The zoo in Chiang Mai, Thailand sells paper made from panda excrement as well:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17799869/

    Why would anybody want it? Just for a souvenir, I guess. I didn't buy any, because I've already got enough touristy, uh, crap already.

    As for whether it's environmentally-friendly, I can't say. It's billed that way of course, but it would seem to me that they'd have to use a lot of energy and harsh chemicals to sanitize it in the initial phases.

  8. The Foreigner
    April 22nd, 2009 at 10:01 am

    Just one other thing. I don't know about wombat paper, but panda paper is expensive and very brightly colored. It's not white -- it's not for jotting down your weekly grocery list.

    The only real use that comes to my mind for it might be for origami. If you're going to make complex works of origami art that you plan to keep for a long time, it makes little sense to use the cheapest, most ordinary paper you can buy.


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