Y Goch - Sheep dung paper - sounds just the sort of thing for you

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  1. Farnham_Red

    Farnham_Red Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    A company in Snowdonia has won an award for making greetings cards and gifts out of sheep droppings.</p>

    Creative Paper Wales won a £20,000 Millennium Award for its Sheep Poo Paper products, reports the BBC.</p>

    They collect sheep droppings from the surrounding mountains, sterilise it in pressure cookers and recover the washed and undigested fibres.</p>

    A sheep digests just 50% of what it eats. The recovered fibres are mixed to form paper and cardboard for the company's range of stationery and gift products.</p>

    Even the washing water is not wasted - it is distributed to local growers as concentrated fertiliser.</p>

    Founders Lawrence Toms, 38, from Rhondda and Lez Paylor, 38, from Caerphilly, said they had been keen to develop an idea which would be uniquely Welsh.</p>

    The company's plant at Aberllefenni, near Machynlleth, will be able to produce one to two tonnes of paper a year.</p>
     
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    Y Goch Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for that

    Will send you a birthday card on the stuff
     

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