{"id":115903,"date":"2020-11-15T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/chinese-firm-turns-panda-poop-into-toilet-paper"},"modified":"2020-11-15T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T18:23:05","slug":"chinese-firm-turns-panda-poop-into-toilet-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/chinese-firm-turns-panda-poop-into-toilet-paper","title":{"rendered":"Chinese firm turns panda poop into toilet paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When life gave one Chinese company giant panda poop, it decided to make paper \u2014 and profits. The Qianwei Fengsheng Paper Company in southwest Sichuan province has teamed up with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda to recycle the animal\u2019s faeces and food debris into toilet paper, napkins and other household products, state media reported Wednesday. The goods, soon to be released on the Chinese market, will be marketed as part of a \u201cpanda poo\u201d product line decorated with a picture of the bamboo-eating, black-and-white bear. \u201cThey\u2019re taking care of our garbage for us,\u201d Huang Yan, a researcher at the giant panda centre, told the Chengdu Business Daily. Huang told Xinhua state news agency that the 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of bamboo poo that adult pandas unleash daily are rich in fibre after absorbing the fructose from the shoots. In addition to their valuable dung, pandas also produce 50 kilograms of food waste every day from the bamboo husks they spit out after chewing. While the process of turning bamboo into paper generally involves the breaking down of fructose to extract fibre, this step naturally occurs in the pandas\u2019 digestive tract, the paper company\u2019s president, Yang Chaolin, told Xinhua. Fengsheng will collect the faeces from three panda bases in Sichuan a couple of times a week. After it is boiled, pasteurised and turned into paper, it will be tested for bacteria before going on sale. Boxes of \u201cpanda poo\u201d tissues will be sold at 43 yuan ($6.5) a pop. \u201cPandas get what they want and we do too,\u201d Yang said. \u201cIt\u2019s a win-win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Circa 2017 o.o When life gave one Chinese company giant panda poop, it decided to make paper \u2014 and profits. The Qianwei Fengsheng Paper Company in southwest Sichuan province has teamed up with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda to recycle the animal\u2019s faeces and food debris into toilet paper, napkins [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}