Elephant Dung Paper (sorry!)

Sorry to give you the rear end of an elephant as a photo, but I gotta' tell ya', this is ingeneous. This company called Exotic Paper in the United Kingdom is taking elephant dung from the Woburn Center for Conservation and Education in Sri Lanka, flying the fibrous matter that remains after cleaning it to Scotland and making paper out of it. What's more, it's made at a mill, called Frogmore Mill, that uses a traditional waterwheel from 1803 which was the world's first successful continuous papermaking machine.

How do I know all this? Well, today was the bi-annual day-at-the bookstore that I spend with my older daughter--8 solid hours. By hour 7, I have usually moved beyond books and American magazines to the British periodicals, and that's where I found this little tidbit. So, do I order the elephant dung paper, like I ordered the "just cup" of coffee about which I wrote in an earlier post? They say on the site that it doesn't smell . . .

And what makes Ellie Poo Elephant Dung paper a Stone in the Pond? Sheer ingenuity.

To find out more, go to www.elliepoopaper.co.uk, or you can call Joanne Kaar in Caithness, Scotland at 01847 851 449 to arrange a papermaking demonstration for your class or group. Good luck!