<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="news-head" align="left"> Ananova: </td></tr><tr><td height="13"></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="80%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="bottom"><big>Paper from sheep poo</big></td></tr></tbody></table></p> 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>