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A company is creating paper out of Elephant dung. Here is the process that they use.

• We collect naturally dried elephant dung from elephant conservation parks and bring it back to our paper-making factory.
• We then pre-rinse the elephant dung with water, leaving only the fibrous materials from the grasses, bamboo & fruits they’ve eaten.
• Afterwards, we place the fibers into a giant pot of boiling water to ensure the fibers are super clean. After this thorough cleaning, any color that we may want to add can be added.
• Natural fibers from banana trees & pineapples are added to the dung mixture so the paper will be thicker & stronger.
• Once this is all mixed together, we separate the moist fibers into small “cakes’ or “wafers” of about 300-400 grams each.
• The cakes are spread evenly over a mesh-bottomed tray measuring about 60cm by 90cm.
• The tray is leaned up against a tree, angled toward the sun and allowed to dry naturally for a few hours.
• Once dry, we peel the sheet of paper from the mesh tray and start making Poo Poo Paper products.

This is how we made the hand made paper stationery and our how to make recycled paper process!

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Polystyrene is one of the most ubiquitous plastics of our time. Made from highly refined petroleum and found in the casings of computers, in disposable cutlery in yogurt containers and CD jewel cases—as well as in countless other applications—hundreds of thousands of tons of polystyrene are produced in California for our throw-away society.

Foamed polystyrene is produced by adding a blowing agent to polystyrene pellets. As the resulting EPS resin expands it can be molded into cups, or extruded into take-out food boxes. EPS is up to 99% air, which presents significant challenges in terms of waste collection.

377,579 tons of polystyrene are produced in California alone—including 154,808 tons of food service packaging! That’s 154,808 tons of over-processed plastics designed to head straight to the landfill after a use time of a minute or less—the time it takes you to drink your coffee and toss the cup.

Because of its light-weight nature, EPS is one of California’s main litter culprits. Due to its disposable nature, EPS waste is often discarded as litter. One recent California Department of Transportation study discovered that Polystyrene waste constituted the second most common item extracted from storm drains.

Furthermore, even when EPS is disposed of properly, it can easily be diverted from its track to the landfill by wind or other unforeseen forces. Once in the environment, foamed poylstyrene will often enter our ocean, where it becomes a principle component of marine debris. Indeed, the California Coastal Coalition has found studies of debris deposited on beaches that foamed polystyrene is the second most abundant type of marine debris. Up to 90% of marine debris is plastic, and most marine debris comes from urban runoff, like fastfood waste. The Algalita Marine Research Foundation has found that in at least one area of the Pacific plastic outweighs plankton by a factor of six! The Ocean Protection Council in its February Resolution has called for the reduction of single use, unrecyclable food packaging, like foamed polystyrene, as an important step in the reduction of marine debris.

What You Can Do:

Help create an alternative for this very harmful but useful item. Keep it green, if it’s notbio-degradeable than don’t use it! Post your solutions in the reply section.

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