Did I get your attention with the title of this blog post? You might think I typed it as a joke, but it is a serious question. I was walking around the Minnesota state fair this weekend and a gentleman at a booth handed me a business card for a company called Mr. Ellie Pooh. The business card he handed me along with the other products they had displayed are all made using 75% elephant dung. They had notebooks, stationary gift sets, and packs of paper in a variety of sizes. My daughter told me she has used this elephant dung paper before in her paper craft projects and loved it because it tears real nice. I am not sure how I feel about using paper made with elephant poop. How about you?
Would you make crafts and other paper projects using paper made out of elephant poop? (vote by clicking on your desired answer below)
- No Way, I wouldn't even touch it.
- Yes, I am open to any new experiences!
- I might try it, but I would be leery about using it.
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Great idea – and very earth friendly too!! Kate
I just wish it weren’t so expensive…You can’t tell me it really costs them a ton of money to get said doo-doo…
Ellies are vegetarians, so their poop is wonderfully fibrous, perfect for paper making. I first encountered it through Scarab Paper, on South Africa’s Garden Route.
Considering the amount of poo in the world, both human and other animals, I think that any way that we can turn it into something useful is a huge plus!
This is great! Freaked me out at first until I read that elephant poo is mostly cellulose. Makes good sense. How is it sanitary, though? Hmmm. Adorable products!
I used to manage a frame shop; and had a customer who brought in some artwork done on this type of paper. The info leaflet included with the art explained that most of the massive amounts of food eaten by elephants passes through their system undigested. The fibrous material is, of course, rinsed many times over before being made into paper. But they still recommend washing your hands after handling the paper.
What a cool idea! I love both the green aspects, and the metaphor embedded in taking crap and making it into something beautiful and worthwhile.
Ah, another Minnesotan! I was handed a “sample of poo” myself, at the fair on Tuesday, only to come home and see your post! Now that’s recycling at it’s best.
Thank you for my morning laugh! I snorted tea out my nose when the title popped up (or is that pooped up?) LOL!!
Wow, that’s really different. I might would use it but it is kinda disgusting! LOL Using Poop for scrapbooking etc.????? Not to sure about it. But it was a funny post needless to say!
Oh ! its wonderful to know about elephant poop paper. I am from Nepal and some of rural villagers in Chitwan are also making this elephant poop paper. Their quality may not be like here you find in US, but you can always refine this. They have sent some photos to me if I can help them market their products. This is a environmentally friendly products and lot of poor people would get benefit from it. Please let me know if you would like to know more about it.
Yes I would try it to save our enviroment and
elephants .
My son and I did see a special on the animal
planet when he was about 5 years old and he thought it was disgusting and now he is 6 so
now he thinks its funny I would love totake a bunch of this paper to his classroom and after they used the paper tell them what it was mad of . ha ha
Eww! Why would ANYONE make paper out of elephent POO?
Mythbusters did a segment on making highly polished balls with animal poo. It was incredibly interesting, seeing the end product you would never guess what they were made of!
I have seen earings made from moose poop
I just laugh when I think of the person who saw an elephant poop and said, “hey, I think I’ll make some paper!”