The average elephant grow up to300 poundsof dung a daytime . Now , the Prague Zoo , which is home to a herd of elephant , has announced originative plans to put all that poop to good manipulation . The zoo has teamed up with the 420 - class - former paper milling machinery Velke Losiny and will before long begin transmute the dung produced by their elephant into high - quality paper .
The Associated Pressreports that Velke Losiny will use traditional paper - produce techniques to process the elephant manure . Though the company has one C of newspaper publisher - making experience , company director Petr Foucek told the Associated Press that elephant dung paper was “ something Modern for us . ” In addition to outsourcing paper production to Velke Losiny , the zoo will also let visitant make their own manure paper at a brand - new zoo readiness .
Though the Prague Zoo is home to an entire herd of elephants , their most famous pachyderm isShanti , an Asiatic elephant who was transported to Europe in 1977 to come along in the movies . She was buy by the Prague Zoo after “ acting ” in a tyke ’s film calledPoplach v oblacích(Alarm in the Clouds)—which means if you purchase some of the zoo ’s elephant dung newspaper , you might end up writing your next letter of the alphabet on paper made from a movie wizard ’s poop .
This is n’t the first time the Prague Zoo has found a creative way to get rid of their elephant dung — they also sell it as fertilizer — nor are they the first masses to create elephant dung paper . Companies likeMr . Ellie Poohsell a range of elephant dung paper products , from notebooks , journals , and salutation board to hand - crafted report artworks . In the case of Mr. Ellie Pooh , part of the project is aimed at protecting Sri Lanka ’s queer elephant universe , in part by demonstrate Sri Lankans that elephant dung is a sustainable economical resource . At the Prague Zoo , though , it seems more potential that beleaguered zookeepers were simply looking for a fun way to get rid of the thousands of pounds of elephant manure that pile up every daytime .
[ h / tAssociated Press ]
