Paper from sheep poo

A company in Snowdonia has won an award for making greetings cards and gifts out of sheep droppings.

Creative Paper Wales won a £20,000 Millennium Award for its Sheep Poo Paper products, reports the BBC.

They collect sheep droppings from the surrounding mountains, sterilise it in pressure cookers and recover the washed and undigested fibres.

A sheep digests just 50% of what it eats. The recovered fibres are mixed to form paper and cardboard for the company's range of stationery and gift products.

Even the washing water is not wasted - it is distributed to local growers as concentrated fertiliser.

Founders Lawrence Toms, 38, from Rhondda and Lez Paylor, 38, from Caerphilly, said they had been keen to develop an idea which would be uniquely Welsh.

The company's plant at Aberllefenni, near Machynlleth, will be able to produce one to two tonnes of paper a year.

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Don't bother sending me birthday presents this year, I want a card made from sheep poop.

Yep I see that sentence happening ....

ever resourceful, aren't they?

Whoa. I wouldn't want to be involved in the process, but it's a pretty inventive idea... Anything to save the forests!

lol

but they have had a smiliar idea with kangaroo drooppings i think

that's interesting but l wounder if the paper would have a smell to it ?

i dont think it would it would be put through a heap of processing with chemicals and stuff. More likely to smell like bleech then poo i guess

Seems like elephant poo would be more profitable. I wonder how many cards you could make from one pile?
Here we see a gal gathering a specimen now.

I saw something about this on tv before recently, it's actually a widely used method.

Elephant poo sounds like a good idea too

I think you need to use vegetairian poopies cause the poopies from carnivores rots too quickly. im not sure about that but in science class i remmeber something along those lines

Lol that picture makes me laugh.

I was wondering if it would have a smell to it too.

I shan't be eating any more paper in the near future now

No more making spitballs EVER.

there is such thing as rice paper