Our Commitment to Environment and People

Our commitment to both the planet we inhabit and the people on the POOPOOPAPER team is genuine and unwavering.  We honestly believe that there is a middle way - where people can balance their commercial pursuits and be good stewards of our shared environment.  We're doing our best and strive to improve everyday.

1. No trees have been cut to produce POOPOOPAPER™ papers. We have truly developed a new range of innovative and alternative pulp sources.  Our products are an excellent example of recycling and sustainability - by taking actual waste and re-purposing it into functional alternative-fiber paper products we're on the leading edge of progressive recycling initiatives.

2. We have evolved to now print and color over 95% of our products with natural soy-inks and non-toxic and edible food coloring.  All printing on our stock products utlize eco-friendly and natural soy-based inks.

3. We have and will continue to support elephant welfare and conservation initiatives and support large and small organizations, schools and individuals with a focus on preserving the natural environment.  We have supported such efforts with cash and in-kind donations since inception.

4. We directly operate a flex-work cottage-based manufacturing production framework in Thailand where many of our crafts people (over 95% females) have the opportunity to work at home with flexibility to attend to their own seasonal harvesting commitments as well as maintain their family household management responsibilities.  Incomes generated often enhances largely agriculture-based family incomes.

5. We provide employment to many ethnic minorities many of whose parents originate from areas in proximity rife with political conflict and lack of basic freedoms that we take for granted.  Many others on our staff otherwise would not otherwise be able to find reliable, meaningful employment in the local market due to local biases, discriminatory practices and restrictions of mobility. We assist with necessary work permits and pay a fair and legal wage with all our employees having social security benefits including a retirement savings and unemployment insurance plan as well as a comprehensive health care coverage.

 

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POOP to PAPER

Elephants, cows, horses and the other fiber eating herbivores that we focus on have incredible appetites but pretty inefficient digestive systems.  Elephants can eat upwards of 250kg per day of fiber-filled meals and much of that passes through their systems largely in tact leaving plenty of fiber from which we make our pulp mixtures. (Read more)

ECO ENTRE-MANURES

What started as the Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Company Limited focused on crafting paper products made from solely elephant poo has now evolved (or devolved) into Alternative Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. producing all sorts of paper products from a variety of waste fiber materials active in the paper, printing, packaging and consumer products industries. (Coming Soon)

FECAL MATTER O'FACTS

Poop, poo, dung, doo, pies, patties - whatever you want to call it - has been used for millenia in so many useful ways: as a fuel; as a building material; as an insect repellant. POOPOOPAPER™ products simply continue a long time tradition by using poop as the base for our unique pulp mixtures. (Coming Soon)

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Welcome to POOPOOPAPER.COM!

Contrary to popular belief – no, we did not just fall into this!  It actually started more idealistically - as a belief that we could create products that would represent a healthy and sustainable balance between ecological responsibility AND commercial pursuit.  Yeah – we know – koombaya! 

Allow us to elaborate… in fact, pull up a stool…

POOPOOPAPER™ products are natural, recycled and odorless (!) paper products made from poop from a variety of different fiber-eating vegetarian animals such as elephants, cows, horses, moose, pandas, and donkeys.  That right!  Go figure!

Here’s the scoop:  these fiber-eating animals eat lots of grass and vegetation everyday and they poop almost as much.  Since the digestive systems of these specific animals don’t really break down the vegetation all that well, their poop has plenty of fiber even after their meal is consumed.  Knowing that fibers are the base material used in making pulp for paper production (albeit tree fibers typically), we figured there was a high probability that making pulp and quality paper from poop was not only achievable but that the case for poop as an alternative fiber source to tree-based pulp was a compelling one!

POOPOOPAPER™ products are playfully outrageous with a serious underlying message of sustainability.  

Today, we are pleased to be the pioneering purveyors of Elephant POOPOOPAPER™, Cow POOPOOPAPER™, Horse POOPOOPAPER™, Donkey POOPOOPAPER™, Moose POOPOOPAPER™ and Panda POOPOOPAPER™ products.  POOPOOPAPER™ products are fun, eco-friendly and inspirational and make an incredibly memorable gift that are likely to be talked about for years to come.  POOPOOPAPER™ products include journals, notepads, albums, frames, bags, stationery, greeting cards, calendars, diaries etc. in dozens of styles, colors and themes. 

Take your time to explore our site and our POOPOOPAPER WEBSTORE called ‘THE POOTIQUE’ (internally known as THE PLOP SHOP).  Read about our production process, view some of our fan mail, learn how we support worthwhile causes that share our commitment to conservation and understand how our organization is genuinely committed to fair trade principles in a direct, real, verifiable and substantial way!