Aha! Now we know why paper mills smell so horrid. posted by netbros at 12:26 PM on March 7
So theoretically, you could send jackass letters written on real jackass poo paper? posted by dunkadunc at 12:27 PM on March 7
I don't think that poo paper will ever really take off. Or at least it will always be number two to me. posted by YoBananaBoy at 12:29 PM on March 7 [1 favorite has favorites]
Nope, not going to click that link. I've been around the internet long enough to know not to click links titled A new use for Poo posted by nola at 12:50 PM on March 7 [2 favorites has favorites]
I assumed this would be used for poo, but I see I made an ass out of me and...well only me. Still. They should make wombat poo into poo paper. The Circle of Life and all that. posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 12:53 PM on March 7
And google claims they are doing this with kangaroo paper, but I could only find one place that sold "Roo Poo Paper," but they didn't seem to have a way to link directly to a singular product.
I also forgot my PepsiPoo tag. posted by cjorgensen at 2:46 PM on March 7
Do they sterilize it first or something? If not, all that poo paper seems like a great way to kickstart some kind of crazy elephant tapeworm epidemic.
Also: Dunger Mifflin. posted by Sys Rq at 3:03 PM on March 7
Is wombat poo really more plentiful than other sources of paper (say, trees)? posted by l33tpolicywonk at 3:17 PM on March 7
Poo paper, man! That stuff's the shit! posted by yoink at 3:25 PM on March 7
The cool thing about this product is that they could make paper bags out of it - paper bags which one could light afire and place upon the porch of a neighbor, then ring the bell and run away to hide behind a hedge, giggling as the neighbor stomps it out. posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 3:57 PM on March 7 [1 favorite has favorites]
Finally, a medium worthy of the script from Purple Rain. posted by CynicalKnight at 4:54 PM on March 7
Ah, metafilter. The last place left on the entire internets where I can follow a link entitled "a new use for poo" and not have it lead to terrifying things involving cups, girls, &c. Bless your little cotton socks. posted by elizardbits at 5:38 PM on March 7 [2 favorites has favorites]
Has Bono been confirmed for celebrity endorsement yet? posted by mannequito at 8:49 PM on March 7
Last time I was in Thailand, I visited an elephant camp. They were selling paper they'd made from elephant poo. I didn't buy any, but it was pretty interesting to see how they processed the poo into paper.
Elephants eat tons of cellulose-rich biomass, processing out the nutrients and passing the fiber through and eliminating it as poo. They go through so much biomass in a day, each elephant is a veritable poo paper factory. posted by darkstar at 11:53 PM on March 7
One of the articles I linked to said there would be imperfections in the paper. I would figure there would have to be, since perfect paper seems to be made with a slurry of a single fiber. A lot of the arty type paper I buy has inclusions. This paper isn;t what you would use to do your quarterly reports on. posted by cjorgensen at 8:36 AM on March 8
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