Panda poop produces paper

by Kaitlin | March 27, 2007 at 02:25 pm

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A Chinese panda reserve wants to turn crap into gold...literally. Reserve researchers are looking into turning the pandas' feces into toilet paper (oh the irony!), stationery, and other paper products. Apparently, this is already all the rage in Thailand.

They hope to have a product line available by next year, he said.

"We are not interested in doing this for the profits but to recycle the waste," said Liao. "It's environmentally friendly. We can use the paper ourselves and also we can sell whatever is left over."

The center's 40 bamboo-fed pandas produce about 2 tons of droppings a day, but Liao said he was not sure yet how much paper would result.