A new line of eco-paper has come up and creating a big buzz. Well, the paper being manufactured by a Sri-Lankan company Mr. Ellie Pooh  makes it out of elephant poo. And the reason why this paper came into existence is to save the elephant. We know that one tenth of 40,000 Asian elephants live in Sri Lanka and are killed because they interfere with agriculture and are regarded as pests just like the wolves who are are killed by some Americans to save their livestock.

So, Mr. Ellie Pooh took on to himself the task of proving how elephants can be valuable to the economy and not otherwise. And so the eco-paper was made from 75 per cent of elephant dung collected from elephant orphanages across Sri Lanka and 25 per cent all post-consumer waste. Pooh reasons that since an elephant is vegetarian, his waste is high in raw cellulose, which after being cleaned and processed can be converted into a beautifully textured product.

Kudos to the man for coming up with this brilliant and useful idea. The source is dependable because an adult elephant makes 500 pounds of poop in a single day giving us a renewable source of energy. Right now, the poopy paper is being sold at Pixxlz in Massachusetts. Let’s hope its reaches the rest of the world soon enough.

Via treehugger