Australian Recycles Wombat Poop into Luxury Paper Products

The Wombat
No. Not her. She is there just to give a sense of size.

Just Charming. Roo Poo Paper Products

There are dedicated people in every line of work. Which is sometimes unfortunate. Particularly when the occupation is scatologist. When a expert on crap finds himself with too much time on his hands, shit happens. From Breitbart.com we learn:

Australian turns wombat poo into paper trail

“An Australian entrepreneur has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase “waste paper” with an ingenious green scheme to make luxury stationery from wombat dung.

Darren Simpson, a self-confessed “poo expert,” has big plans for the square-shaped fecal deposits of a wombat named Nugget, whose waste is supposed to act as a territorial marker.

“It’s not your normal poo. It’s not round or long — it’s actually little bricks and it’s very, very fibrous,” Simpson told AFP.

“When you break it open, basically what you can see through it is plant matter. So they’re a good little pulper.”

With the help of Nugget’s keeper, Simpson harvests the animal’s droppings and then boils them down to the fibres to make handmade paper — the latest in his line of peculiarly Australian products.

The wombat poo paper, which is made by combining the sterilised waste with cotton fibres, was launched in Tasmania state last month, and follows the success of Simpson’s “roo poo” paper, made from kangaroo excrement.”

“When we kept getting to the roo poo sample everyone kept asking us ‘Can you make it from all these different other types of animals?’ And the one that kept coming up was wombat poo. So we thought, well we better give this a go.”

Can you imagine that? Hordes of people demanding wombat poo paper. Just shows you we here at DBKP don’t get out much. Frankly sometimes a whole week will go by before one of the DBKP team thinks about wombat poop paper.Others, apparently, are more in tune with the times.

The Infamous Wombat Poop

The wombats are not particularly pleased about this development.

“When they do their poo, they will do it on the highest rock and basically that’s a mark of their territory,” Simpson explained.

“If you take it, they don’t like that. They have to keep putting it back.”

The “speciality” product would have a greenish tinge in winter and yellow in summer, depending on Nugget’s diet, and was designed for use in art, wedding invitations, as gift cards or bookmarks.

Simpson said his company Creative Paper would soon begin work on a wombat poo line of photo albums, journals and writing paper.

He said adhesive tape solved the one concern customers had when using his earthy stationery.

“The only problem we ever had was that no one ever wanted to lick the envelope,” he said.”

So if you are a wits end in finding that perfect gift………

On a more serious note.

The wombat is an Australian/Tasmanian marsupial. It lives in large burrows in wet and mountainous areas. Unlike other marsupials, its pouch is rear facing so as to prevent dirt from entering. At adulthood, it averages about a yard in length and is a strong muscular animal. Thier only natural enemies prior to the arrival of man to Australia were Tasmanian Devils and wolves, for which the wombat developed sophisticated defenses. Dingo and habitat destruction is of most concern, although the threat of diseases brought into the ecology by feral cats is increasingly worrisome, particularly mange, for which wombats have no resistance.

At one time Australia had wombat species as large as rhinoceros, but easily trapped by early man, they were driven to extinction. Wombats have relatively large brains for marsupials, can be bred in captivity, and released in the wild with a high degree of confidence.

The Wombat Protection Society of Australia is actively engaged in keeping these guys safe in their burrows.

by pat

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