Poo Poo Paper

Trademarked from www.poopoopaper.com

Soo...I know we must go to extreme measures sometimes for the environment's sake. There are many changes we've been making in our lives already - such as shopping with re-usable bags, drinking out of metal bottles, and using less paper. We even go as far as wearing cloth made from bamboo charcoal or coconut fibres.

And then there's using poo poo paper.

A company called poopoopaper.com makes eco-friendly paper out of elephant . In case you're wondering, this image of the poo poo is from their website.

The company takes dried elephant poo, which is high in long fibres from the elephants' bamboo and grass diet, and wash it in water. When nothing but the fibres are left, they take that and boil it in high temperature water for sanitation purposes.

After the sanitation process, the fibres are mixed with dyes as well as fibres from the banana and pineapple trees. These other materials help to strengthen the paper.

Once that's done, patties for the paper pulp are made and then spread over large mesh screens. The screens are then laid up against tree trunks to sun dry. When they are done, the poo poo paper is ready to use.


Guys - this paper is hand-made, completely natural, and eco-friendly. It barely uses any energy besides boiling water and the sun, and no chemical perservatives. Not a single tree is cut for the sake of these sheets.

You can't get much more environmentally friendly than that - and yet one wonders. What will it be like to write on poo?


For those of you interested, poo poo paper products are available in the Opus art store at Granville Island, as well as through some of the products from Boulevard Advertising.

www.bankers.ca - a supplier for Boulevard Advertising