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New factory will turn elephant dung into paper

An elephant conservation centre in Thailand is to start making paper from elephant dung.

The Lampang Elephant Conservation Centre is opening its own factory to manufacture paper in bulk.

The centre, at Lampang, looks after more than 80 elephants and all profits will go towards their care.

Each elephant produces several kilos of fibrous dung a day, which is said to be ideal for making paper.

Nipakorn Singhaphutharakul, who runs the centre, told the Thai Rath newspaper that experiments at producing paper had proved very successful.

Contacts had already been made with businessmen at home and abroad and several had shown an interest in buying the paper.

It is not the first original money-raising venture at the centre which also sells abstract art painted by its elephants.

Click here for the Lampang Elephant art.

Elephant dung paper is completely chlorine free. 

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