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Alexander Bismarck was driving around Crete and watching goats eat grass and poop it out, when he got the idea that maybe goats were doing to the grass what paper manufacturers were doing to trees: breaking it down to cellulose to be made into paper.
Paper has been always made from trees. Unfortunately, especially recently, the planet is running out of trees. But, as we all know, the earth will probably never run out of poop.
When paper is made from machines, they have to be ground way down. Goats do that work – for free – every day of their grass-munching, poop-leaning lives.
They don’t need petrol or diesel to operate. Just more grass. Which makes more poop, which makes more paper. And they need some water to drink. And maybe some scratches on their chinny-chin chins.
Essentially it’s a lot more environmentally friendly than traditional paper making processes.
Would you use this poop paper?
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