A north-west Tasmanian company is launching a product made from wombat poo.
Creative Paper attracted worldwide interest for its 'roo-poo' paper in 2005.
Darren Simpson from Creative Paper says the paper is green or gold depending on the time of year the droppings are harvested.
He says the company is pleased with its quality and texture.
"One of the things that we're finding is that wombats are much cleaner and do a much better job of pulping it, so we're finding it's a lot easier to make paper from wombat poo in comparison," he said.
Mr Simpson says they are careful to use only scats from wombats in captivity, because animals in the wild use them for communication.
"They're very territorial," he said.
"In fact what they do is leave their droppings as a form of saying, 'this is my area'.
"So if you remove it, they have to keep putting it back.
"So we don't want to wreck the balance too much if we can help it."
The wombat scat paper will be unveiled at an international paper conference in Burnie later this month.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/04/2507046.htm
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