From Stable Floor to Stationery Store: Learn All About Horse Poo Paper
Horse poop paper?! Yes, it’s as strange and pioneering as it sounds. Turns out, horse poop? It's not just a stepping hazard at the ranch! It's the material we use to make our range of innovative sustainable products. While we primarily use elephant poop to make our products (there is more of an abundance of it in the northern Thailand area), we don’t discriminate against the animal poop that is available to us. POOPOOPAPER products can be made from elephant poo, cow poo, horse poo, and even donkey poo. But for today, we’ll tell you all about horse poop.
What is Horse Poo Paper?
Horse poop paper, alternatively called manure paper if you want to be fancy, is exactly what you think it is. It is paper made from the fibrous material taken from the excrement of a horse. Since horses have a very fibrous diet, their poop is an ideal eco-friendly alternative to traditional materials used to make paper. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe, making paper from horse poo was actually a very common practice.
Why Use Horse Poo to Make Paper?
Unlike trees, which is the material commonly used to make paper, horse poop is considered a sustainable alternative as it is a renewable resource. Horses need to eat, and as a result, horses will poop. It’s a never-ending lifehack as long as horses exist. On the other hand, it takes on average anywhere from 10 to 40 years to grow a tree. To frequently harvest wood from them to make paper is unsustainable. The benefit of using horse poop for paper production is that it won’t contribute to deforestation, which is a win for Mother Nature – making it a win for everyone.
What Does Horse Poo Paper Look Like?
Horse poop paper doesn’t look strange. It won’t have the clean, bleached white, machine-milled paper look that you’re familiar with sitting on your printer’s tray. It will be a natural-toned sheet of paper with a slightly textured and possibly rough surface. These irregularities will come from the horse dung fibers along with the other natural waste fibers it was mixed with. At POOPOOPAPER, our horse poop fibers are combined with fibers from seasonably available waste like corn husks or banana tree trunks to create a stronger and more well-bonded sheet of paper.
Our talented local artists are key in taking plain, rustic-looking horse poop paper and elevating them into our wonderful POOPOOPAPER products. Using natural soy-based inks, we can create horse poop paper in many shades. Our skillful artisans then cut shapes and combine things together to create everything from our environmentally friendly cards to our paper bookmarks, and of course, our eco-friendly notebooks. To see just how varied and beautiful our hose poop paper can become, you can see our range of horse poop paper products here.
Our Handmade Paper Products Made from Horse Poo
Take your love for horses to the next level with our horse poop paper products. From plain paper sheets to paper flower bouquets, we have paper made from horse poop in a variety of forms.
Horse POOPOOPAPER Eco-friendly Journal
Our sustainable, handcrafted journal in the natural color featuring the classic Horse POOPOOPAPER logo. It is odor-free, tree-free, and perfect for eco-conscious note-taking or journaling. Inside, it contains 30 blank journal pages for your innermost thoughts and ideas. On the back of the notebook, you can read the complete story of Horse POOPOOPAPER.
Horse Poop Scratch Note Pads
Our eco-friendly scratch note pads offer a more convenient and casual alternative compared to our full journals. Their compact size makes them easy to carry around, perfect for jotting down quick notes, doodles, or reminders on the go. They’re great for spontaneous use, with no pressure to fill an entire book. They come in various designs, with either cutesy sayings from our Someone Who Loves Me collection, or in-your-face sayings from our Made With Real Poo collection. Though, for those who prefer more understated styles with no wording, our On The Farm collection is the choice for you. Enjoy scratch note pads or journals with designs of a mama horse and baby horse of a horse galloping on farm grounds while a cat watches on.
Paper Flower Bouquet Made From Horse Poo Paper
A one-of-a-kind gift that does it all: our paper flower bouquet. It combines humor, sustainability, and lasting beauty. Each flower is odor-free, beautifully detailed, and completely unique as it’s shaped by hand with the talents of our skillful artisans. Unlike real flowers, a POOPOOPAPER paper flower bouquet requires no water, no sunlight, and no maintenance… yet, it lasts forever. It’s a fun and unexpected way to brighten someone’s day. It will surely be the one bouquet of flowers the recipient will always remember thanks to its cheeky origin story.
If our horse poop paper products have intrigued you, we have plenty more where that came from. Our product line is as wide-ranging as it is innovative, offering eco-friendly stationery products made from all kinds of upcycled animal waste. To peruse our featured sustainable products, click here.