"It's taken my breath away just how popular this is," she says.Well, yes. What Joanna Gair, manager of an Australian paper company, is referring to is paper made from kangaroo dung - roo poo.
So far there are two versions of the roo poo paper.Yes, indeed. And (as you will certainly have guessed by now) there' s more.
"One is a pure version, which is dark and actually looks quite pooey," says Gair, adding the paper doesn't actually smell.
She says the paper's appearance depends on what the kangaroo has eaten.
The length of the fibres will also be determined by how much the animal chews on them. This means that old kangaroos with bad teeth could provide the best poo for paper.Turns out this is not a particularly new idea, this roo poo paper, as Sandinavians use elk dung in paper making and Africans, elephant. Didn't know that, did you?
(And thanks to UNDERNEWS for turning this one up.)
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