Paper made from Wombat Poo...big seller


	Paper made from Wombat Poo...big seller

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f629a2c6-9d30-4742-b034-c8cd18f25d13/67EB3FE8-067A-4852-B315-52714527FA69/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://optimistworld.com/Wombat-droppings-Australian-paper-manufacturer-boost-the-economy/" href="http://optimistworld.com/Wombat-droppings-Australian-paper-manufacturer-boost-the-economy/" style="font-size: 11px;">optimistworld.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/Wombat-droppings-Australian-paper-manufacturer-boost-the-economy/"><H1>Wombat droppings used by an Australian paper manufacturer boost the economy</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/Wombat-droppings-Australian-paper-manufacturer-boost-the-economy/"><DIV class="article_image" id="divArticleImage">
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				            </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/Wombat-droppings-Australian-paper-manufacturer-boost-the-economy/"><P>Here's the brightest story to emerge from the credit crunch, so far. Extraordinary as it may seem, wombat droppings – yes wombat droppings - are helping an industrial city in Australia fight the economic downturn.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/Wombat-droppings-Australian-paper-manufacturer-boost-the-economy/"><P>Round upon round of job cuts have blighted the city of Burnie, in the north-west of the state of Tasmania. But one local industry is fighting back by producing handmade paper out of wombat poo.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/Wombat-droppings-Australian-paper-manufacturer-boost-the-economy/"><P>Tourists have been keen to snap up the novelty paper as a unique souvenir of Australia – and the wombat, a furry marsupial which lives in the wild. Wombats' diets are loaded with plant fibre which make their faeces ideal for making the paper.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/Wombat-droppings-Australian-paper-manufacturer-boost-the-economy/"><DIV>Manufacturer Creative Paper says it can be unpleasant – but for the delighted visitors, it's clearly worth it. All the paper is made from the dung of a single animal called Nugget. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/67EB3FE8-067A-4852-B315-52714527FA69/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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