Sheep Poo Paper

[balou]

What next? :eek:

http://www.creativepaperwales.co.uk/how_made.asp

[captain spanky]

wow coooool
recycling rocks... but i bet it's more expensive than industrially produced ultra white tree stuff

[Satchel]

wow... that's nutty!

[captain spanky]

no satchel, that would be squirrel paper... ;) :D

[Exodus]

What the hell? :confused: That's some sh*tty paper! :eek: :p

[Satchel]

yeah I guess you're right captain, I suppose Exodus is closer to what it really is!?

[cornfed]

Wow! That's pretty interesting. We make paper about once a year out of dryer lint, but poo I never considered.

[Jackimalyn]

what the crap?

[DrummerHead]

The washing process produces a big pile of... usable fibers

:D

[danedawg99]

what the crap?
yep. :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

how delightful :D

[frankster]

Yay! the Snowdonia region is where me and my husband are from! Deganwy and Rhosgadfan to be precise. I'm sending that link to my folks who still live there! Hooray for sheep poo and crazy welsh people! I feel quite homesick now :(

[Jackimalyn]

i hope they dont make envelopes out of it...

[Jackimalyn]

Yay! the Snowdonia region is where me and my husband are from! Deganwy and Rhosgadfan to be precise. I'm sending that link to my folks who still live there! Hooray for sheep poo and crazy welsh people! I feel quite homesick now :(

Post your addy, well all mail you some poo so you feel at home again

[smiley123]

As a first time poster and not a graphics person at all, I have to wonder if the end product is soft on yur bum, now if the poo paper were made out of sheeps wool, I think there could be a market for it.
Yours sheepishly (shall I get my coat now?) Js

[Jackimalyn]

wecome to the GDF. I think youll fit right in.

[smiley123]

I had hoped that my first post would be thought provoking, intellectual and inspiring, and pure genius, but ok sheep poo paper...I can relate,lol, thanks for the welcome

[(gra-ph!c-D'sig-nah)]

And I thought someone was just wipping their butt with my paper....If they did make envelopes my bill collecters will get a lot of unclosed envelopes. I better start paying my bill online before I lick some sheep poo!

[Red Kittie Kat]

Hiya Smiley :D ....... Welcome to our world :D

[(gra-ph!c-D'sig-nah)]

What is more genius than talking about paper made of poo!

[Jackimalyn]

i think youd have to be genius to make money off animal feces.

Edit: Except for the obvious fertilizer. If you can get people to touch it and keep it on their desk and next to their phone... well damn. you deserve respect.

[(gra-ph!c-D'sig-nah)]

reminds me of the old saying...."things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm"

[frankster]

Thanks Jacki, that's terribly generous of you! Alas, I have an abundance of poo. Two kids under two years old means my life revolves around potty humour and defecation antics. Here's some photos of why I get home sick when I think of Snowdonia...

http://www.bpdphotech.com/viewgallery.asp?GalleryID=2

The bloke who took the photos is a mate of my parents. It's such a beautiful place, even if it does rain most of the time. We get to go home for Christmas though, so the kids can meet the grandparents!

[Jackimalyn]

no prob. by the way- its gorgeous

[Virgo Nightingale]

I remember seeing something on TV about an elephant refuge in India that raises money to care for their elephants by making paper from their poo. Apparently it makes rather nice paper since the poo is mostly undigested grass that makes a very nice pulp for papermaking. (I'm sure this same quality applies to the sheep poo.)

I think the same program also had a segment on an artist who uses cow poo for paint. The artist claims it must be the right consistency (read: not too solid, not too runny) and he can get a fairly wide range of browns and greens. He also collects it "fresh" - meaning he stands behind the cows with a pail to catch it before it hits the ground. His paintings (the subject matter of which usually being... well, cows) fetch as much as $100 in a local gallery.

[Red Kittie Kat]

This has turned into a pretty shitty thread!!




Baaaaahahaha...... oh I kill me http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/smilies/rofl3.gif

[frankster]

i've seen some of the elephant poo art in oriel mostyn in llandudno, wales. it was, er, interesting. some was even displayed on varnished poo pedestals. That was at least 5 years ago, maybe more. It's beginning to sound like the welsh are a bunch of fecophiliacs isn't it.

[budafist]

You could always have self sealing sheep poo envelopes :D

What a great idea. The government should fund recycle ideas more to create more options.

[Lez]

Just to let you guys know, we do sell envelopes made from Sheep poo, however they are self Sealing.!!!

Lez
CPW:p

[budafist]

Just had a thought...

Sheep is mostly undigested grass which the manufacturers extract from the poo. The paper is made from undigested grass then right? Why not just make paper out of grass and skip the sheep altogther?

Oh right no novelty factor.

[DesignerScott]

Made my weekend =)
Now if I could just get my new b.cards printed on that affordably.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Just had a thought...

Sheep is mostly undigested grass which the manufacturers extract from the poo. The paper is made from undigested grass then right? Why not just make paper out of grass and skip the sheep altogther?

Oh right no novelty factor.

Aside from the novelty, it would cost money to gather the grass from the ground; the sheep and elephants will make the poo for free. ;)

[LeftBrain Artist]

We tried using some, but the chunks of corn kept jamming up the printer.

Wacka wacka wacka.

[aid4design]

I think the same program also had a segment on an artist who uses cow poo for paint. The artist claims it must be the right consistency (read: not too solid, not too runny) and he can get a fairly wide range of browns and greens. He also collects it "fresh" - meaning he stands behind the cows with a pail to catch it before it hits the ground. His paintings (the subject matter of which usually being... well, cows) fetch as much as $100 in a local gallery.


I can see him at the gallery show saying, "please hang some of my crap on your wall."

[(gra-ph!c-D'sig-nah)]

We tried using some, but the chunks of corn kept jamming up the printer.

Wacka wacka wacka.

This gave me a good laugh! Thank you!:D

[budafist]

Aside from the novelty, it would cost money to gather the grass from the ground; the sheep and elephants will make the poo for free. ;)

You could target lawn mowing services! They've always got grass to unload!

You could even charge them a fee for you taking the clippings out of their hands :)

[budafist]

Thought I might as well add Panda poo paper article to this thread:



Panda Poop Paper Yields Big Profits

POSTED: 4:30 pm EST November 23, 2006
CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- There's the Panda Express fast-food chain. Jing Jing, a mascot for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The forthcoming animated movie, Kung Fu Panda. Even a Mexican rock band named after the cuddly bear.

Not to be outdone, Thailand has come up with yet another, seemingly unlikely way to capitalize on this globally loved, bamboo-munching animal _ panda poop.

When keepers of the country's panda couple _ Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui _ got tired of disposing the 55 pounds of feces daily produced by the duo, Prasertsak Buntragulpoontawee came up with the idea of turning it all into notebooks, fans, bookmarks and key chains.

"At first the Chinese were very skeptical," says the head of Chiang Mai Zoo's panda unit, referring to the proprietary attitude China takes toward its iconic animal.

But the multicolored paper products have proved hot selling-items at the zoo, with the 300,000 baht (US $8,200) earned to date helping balance the accounts of panda keeping.

The Thai government pays $250,000 a year to China's Wulong Panda Research Institute to rent the pandas, who, depending on the weather, reside in either a $1 million air-conditioned cage or an extensive, fan-cooled outdoor enclosure ringed by a mini-replica of China's Great Wall.

Panda poop paper production involves a daylong process of cleaning the feces, boiling it in a soda solution, bleaching it with chlorine and drying it under the sun. Experimentation continues on how to reduce the chemicals now used.

Prasertsak says he was inspired by sa paper, or mulberry leaf paper, a traditional, local product which has proved a highly popular gift item in recent years.

"We tried selling it on markets outside but so far with not so much success," he says. "But in the zoo, when people see real pandas and then their product they're excited and buy."

[Red Kittie Kat]

I'm all for recycling... more power to the pandas :D

[Samakimoto Graphics]

What?

That's not new!

There's cow dung paper here too!

Cow dung is also a good organic fuel (alternative to wood fuel for charcoal burners) when made into and dried as cakes.

[budafist]

Cow dung is also a good organic fuel (alternative to wood fuel for charcoal burners) when made into and dried as cakes.

Cakes? Sounds uh....delicious...

[Virgo Nightingale]

I bet they look real chocolate-y...

[Red Kittie Kat]

:eek: ewwww


lmao :D