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Turning sheep droppings in to paper products
11/Sep/2006: Creative Paper Wales, a company based in Snowdonia, North Wales, has won a £20, 000 Millennium award for making greeting cards, gifts and other paper products from sheep droppings.
These products are made from the undigested fibres in sheep droppings, obtained by sterilizing the droppings in a pressure cooker and then washing them with water to separate the undigested fibres. The company uses sheep dropping collected from the surrounding mountains, as raw material for their products.
Sheep digests 50 of what they eat and their droppings consists of mostly undigested food materials. Fibres separated from the droppings are mixed to form paper and cardboard used for making stationeries, gifts and other paper products. Water used for washing the droppings is later distributed to the local farmers as concentrated fertilizer.
Founders of this company Mr. Lawrence Toms and Mr. Lez Paylor said that they were very keen to develop an idea that would be uniquely Welsh. Their plant at Aberllefenni village, in the south of Merionethshire, will be able to able to produce one to two tons of paper every year from sheep droppings. Such innovative ideas will help us to use farm wastes as an alternative source to produce paper.
Kesavan Siva
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