Eclectic Treasures (TM) Elephant Poo Poo Paper   environmentally friendly fantastic and fun gifts

Basically, the sustainable cycle works like this: as with all creatures on our planet, elephants need a clean environment anda good diet. With these needs met an elephant produces a lot of dung, which is collect and use to make Poo Poo Paper products. Working with various conservation parks (and mahouts) to gather the dung (which is full of fibrous material and makes great paper). The dung is process into paper sheets from which Poo Poo Paper products are made. The more we sell to customers like you ...the more that can contribute as a percentage of the profits from each item you buy is contributed to elephant welfare and conservation programs!

All these fantastic products are make in Asia using age-old paper making techniques, evolved locally over hundreds of years.  

~ Elephants eat 300 - 600 lb (130 - 270 kg) of food per day - 60% of that food leaves the elephant's body undigested.
~ Elephants drink about 30 gal. (115 L) of water per day.
~ Elephants produce 220 lb (100 kg) of dung & urinate about 15 gal. (60 L) everyday.
~ The largest elephant ever recorded weighed 26,400 lb (12,000 kg).
~ A charging elephant can run up to 25 mph (40 kph).
~ Elephants can live as long as 70 years.
~ Elephants are carried in their mother's.womb for 20 - 22 months - the longest gestation period of any land animal.
~ A newborn calf is about 3 feet tall (270 cm) and weighs approximately 175 - 250 lb (80 - 115 kg).
~ New-born elephants may consume over 2.5 gal. (10 L) of milk a day.
~ An elephant doesn't drink with its trunk, but instead fills the trunk with water and then uses it as a hose to pour the water into its mouth.
~ Elephants are excellent swimmers - they often cross waterways by walking on the bottom and using their trunks as a snorkel.

The making of paper starts with the collection and processing of the dung pulp. Elephant dung is typically full of short to medium grained fibrous materials from the elephants diet which when processed makes excellent paper:
•  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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