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Elephant Dung Paper Products
Lankan pioneers Elephant dung paper
It was a casual article in a local newspaper about a Kenyan game ranger experimenting with paper turned from elephant dung that caught Thusitha Ranasinghe's attention.
The young Sri Lankan accountant, who had joined the family's printing business after working in other presses, was looking for a novel idea and this was it. "This looked a good idea to develop and I worked on it," says Ranasinghe, managing director of Maximus (Pvt) Ltd, a Sri Lankan company that has produced the first-ever commercial paper from elephant dung in the world.
Ranasinghe hasn't met or communicated with the Kenyan game ranger who led to the Sri Lankan's fortunes changing rapidly - at least to exchange notes. However Maximus launched in 1997 has moved from strength to strength -propelled by elephant dung and tonnes of it!
Revenues from the sale of handmade paper using elephant dung rose to Rs 19 million last year from just Rs 650,000 and Ranasinghe said they can do more if the company produces more paper. "Ninety percent of our production is exported," he said, adding that the project is still a cottage industry employing about 100 people.
The plant at the village of Pinnawela near Kegalle, home to the world's pioneering elephant orphanage, uses about two tonnes of dung per day. Ranasinghe says an elephant eats about 200 kg of dry food a day and defecates 16 times. "So there is a lot of dung to collect," he said, adding that their supply comes from six elephants from the neighbouring Millennium Elephant Foundation which maintains a home for elderly and disabled elephants. The foundation cares for old elephants and nurses injured ones.
At the moment the daily supply is sufficient to meet demand. Maximus - the name was derived from the zoological name for the Sri Lankan Elephant "Elephus Maximus Maximus" - pays for the dung at eight rupees a kg as a donation to help the foundation which depends on charity and donations.
Apart from using elephant dung, the company also found that many more waste products, that were often just thrown away, could also be used and recycled. Rice, paddy straw, cinnamon and banana bark are all used to add flavour and colour, thus enhancing the products, according to the company.
Ranasinghe said 10 kilograms of dung normally produces 40 to 50 boards or 600 to 660 sheets of A4 paper. The price for six sheets of A4 paper is about Rs. 50
The colour varies with the type of food consumed - coconut, kitul (treacle) or Jak. The texture depends on whether the elephant is able to chew the food or not. Fully digested fibre gives the paper a smooth finish while half digested fibre makes the paper coarser.
According to Ranjit Serasinghe, one of the founders of Maximus who left the business a few years ago, the elephant has an inefficient digestive tract that results in 60 percent of its food not being digested. Thus the dung is not smelly or mushy unlike dung from other animals. "The other animal that has fibre in the dung is the rhinoceros," he added.
The Maximus paper plant churns out paper that is manufactured using a process that promotes environmental protection. It uses 75 percent elephant dung and the rest is recycled waster paper.
The process
The elephant eats jak leaves and kitul bark and initial pulping is done naturally in the stomach. The dung is collected and sun dried. The dropping is boiled with natural disinfectant - margosa leaves from a medicinal plant. The dung is mechanically pulped to perfection by Maximus. Each 10 kg of dung produces approximately 120 sheets of paper (28" x 32").
The pulp is hand lifted from a papermaking vat to a couching table in the form of a thin sheet of pulp. The variations in the elephant's diet, age and dental state give each batch of paper a unique colour and texture, according to company data.
Consumers in buying and using this paper, the company says, are helping to contribute to the care of this magnificent animal which is being driven to extinction by the loss of its natural habitat.
"By using this paper you can make a difference by highlighting the plight of the majestic elephant," a company statement pasted on its website says. Maximus also manufactures 100 percent recycled handmade paper out of waste paper board, cotton waste, fruit and vegetable fibres along with additives such as paddy husks, dried flowers, straw and other materials.
Ranasinghe says their clients are hotels in Sri Lanka and customers from Japan, Australia, US and Canada. In the US, the company supplies visiting cards to top US corporates. Its sales in the US were boosted after then Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in July 2002 gave US President George Bush a box of dung writing paper, envelopes and name cards during a visit to the US.
The Maximus chief says he set up the company from scratch - shuttling to and fro from Pinnawela to the Industrial Development Board (IDB), a state-run research and technology centre in southern Moratuwa - for about nine months where the machinery to transform the dung to paper was designed and perfected.
As far as marketing was concerned, Ranasinghe was helped by the marketing network maintained by the family's Swastika Printers, which was already selling paper-based products to local hotels.
Ranasinghe says that among their priorities is to raise awareness about the tragic circumstances that surround the Sri Lankan elephant. "We are developing strategies aimed at improving the socio - economic situation that currently restricts under privileged people living in rural areas," he said adding that their vision is to bring man and elephant together in a project called "Peace Paper".
The company hopes to create autonomous and self-sustaining re-cycling plants that make Elephant dung paper from wild elephant dung.
Interest from India
The Sri Lankan company's innovative paper product has drawn interest from India. K. Anilkumar, Chief Executive of Guruvayur Sreekrishna Temple in Kerala in South India has sought advice from Maximus on using elephant dung to produce paper after seeing an article about the company in an Indian magazine. "We are having 63 elephants of different sizes. I am interested to know full details of the utilization of the elephant dung for manufacture of paper," he said in a letter to the company.
Fact box
Elephant Dung Paper is completely safe to touch and handle. The raw material is completely disinfected as part of a one-day boiling process. The final product has been scientifically tested and detailed as “Non harmful” by a Ceylon Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (CISIR) report.
This report is available for perusal if required. The CISIR report detailed above again concludes that the whole of the Maximus activity and production processes are environmentally sound. No dyes or chemical additives are used to produce the Elephant Dung paper. Only non-toxic soil dyes are used to produce our Earth / Rainbow ranges. No bleaches are used in any of our products.
www.ecomaximus.com
Elephant Dung Paper Products
Lankan pioneers Elephant dung paper
It was a casual article in a local newspaper about a Kenyan game ranger experimenting with paper turned from elephant dung that caught Thusitha Ranasinghe's attention.
The young Sri Lankan accountant, who had joined the family's printing business after working in other presses, was looking for a novel idea and this was it. "This looked a good idea to develop and I worked on it," says Ranasinghe, managing director of Maximus (Pvt) Ltd, a Sri Lankan company that has produced the first-ever commercial paper from elephant dung in the world.
Ranasinghe hasn't met or communicated with the Kenyan game ranger who led to the Sri Lankan's fortunes changing rapidly - at least to exchange notes. However Maximus launched in 1997 has moved from strength to strength -propelled by elephant dung and tonnes of it!
Revenues from the sale of handmade paper using elephant dung rose to Rs 19 million last year from just Rs 650,000 and Ranasinghe said they can do more if the company produces more paper. "Ninety percent of our production is exported," he said, adding that the project is still a cottage industry employing about 100 people.
The plant at the village of Pinnawela near Kegalle, home to the world's pioneering elephant orphanage, uses about two tonnes of dung per day. Ranasinghe says an elephant eats about 200 kg of dry food a day and defecates 16 times. "So there is a lot of dung to collect," he said, adding that their supply comes from six elephants from the neighbouring Millennium Elephant Foundation which maintains a home for elderly and disabled elephants. The foundation cares for old elephants and nurses injured ones.
At the moment the daily supply is sufficient to meet demand. Maximus - the name was derived from the zoological name for the Sri Lankan Elephant "Elephus Maximus Maximus" - pays for the dung at eight rupees a kg as a donation to help the foundation which depends on charity and donations.
Apart from using elephant dung, the company also found that many more waste products, that were often just thrown away, could also be used and recycled. Rice, paddy straw, cinnamon and banana bark are all used to add flavour and colour, thus enhancing the products, according to the company.
Ranasinghe said 10 kilograms of dung normally produces 40 to 50 boards or 600 to 660 sheets of A4 paper. The price for six sheets of A4 paper is about Rs. 50
The colour varies with the type of food consumed - coconut, kitul (treacle) or Jak. The texture depends on whether the elephant is able to chew the food or not. Fully digested fibre gives the paper a smooth finish while half digested fibre makes the paper coarser.
According to Ranjit Serasinghe, one of the founders of Maximus who left the business a few years ago, the elephant has an inefficient digestive tract that results in 60 percent of its food not being digested. Thus the dung is not smelly or mushy unlike dung from other animals. "The other animal that has fibre in the dung is the rhinoceros," he added.
The Maximus paper plant churns out paper that is manufactured using a process that promotes environmental protection. It uses 75 percent elephant dung and the rest is recycled waster paper.
The process
The elephant eats jak leaves and kitul bark and initial pulping is done naturally in the stomach. The dung is collected and sun dried. The dropping is boiled with natural disinfectant - margosa leaves from a medicinal plant. The dung is mechanically pulped to perfection by Maximus. Each 10 kg of dung produces approximately 120 sheets of paper (28" x 32").
The pulp is hand lifted from a papermaking vat to a couching table in the form of a thin sheet of pulp. The variations in the elephant's diet, age and dental state give each batch of paper a unique colour and texture, according to company data.
Consumers in buying and using this paper, the company says, are helping to contribute to the care of this magnificent animal which is being driven to extinction by the loss of its natural habitat.
"By using this paper you can make a difference by highlighting the plight of the majestic elephant," a company statement pasted on its website says. Maximus also manufactures 100 percent recycled handmade paper out of waste paper board, cotton waste, fruit and vegetable fibres along with additives such as paddy husks, dried flowers, straw and other materials.
Ranasinghe says their clients are hotels in Sri Lanka and customers from Japan, Australia, US and Canada. In the US, the company supplies visiting cards to top US corporates. Its sales in the US were boosted after then Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in July 2002 gave US President George Bush a box of dung writing paper, envelopes and name cards during a visit to the US.
The Maximus chief says he set up the company from scratch - shuttling to and fro from Pinnawela to the Industrial Development Board (IDB), a state-run research and technology centre in southern Moratuwa - for about nine months where the machinery to transform the dung to paper was designed and perfected.
As far as marketing was concerned, Ranasinghe was helped by the marketing network maintained by the family's Swastika Printers, which was already selling paper-based products to local hotels.
Ranasinghe says that among their priorities is to raise awareness about the tragic circumstances that surround the Sri Lankan elephant. "We are developing strategies aimed at improving the socio - economic situation that currently restricts under privileged people living in rural areas," he said adding that their vision is to bring man and elephant together in a project called "Peace Paper".
The company hopes to create autonomous and self-sustaining re-cycling plants that make Elephant dung paper from wild elephant dung.
Interest from India
The Sri Lankan company's innovative paper product has drawn interest from India. K. Anilkumar, Chief Executive of Guruvayur Sreekrishna Temple in Kerala in South India has sought advice from Maximus on using elephant dung to produce paper after seeing an article about the company in an Indian magazine. "We are having 63 elephants of different sizes. I am interested to know full details of the utilization of the elephant dung for manufacture of paper," he said in a letter to the company.
Fact box
Elephant Dung Paper is completely safe to touch and handle. The raw material is completely disinfected as part of a one-day boiling process. The final product has been scientifically tested and detailed as “Non harmful” by a Ceylon Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (CISIR) report.
This report is available for perusal if required. The CISIR report detailed above again concludes that the whole of the Maximus activity and production processes are environmentally sound. No dyes or chemical additives are used to produce the Elephant Dung paper. Only non-toxic soil dyes are used to produce our Earth / Rainbow ranges. No bleaches are used in any of our products.
www.ecomaximus.com
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Recycling symbol
The universal recycling symbol is an internationally-recognized symbol used to designate recyclable materials. It is composed of three chasing arrows that form a Möbius strip or unending loop.
In 1969 and early 1970, worldwide attention to environmental issues reached a crescendo, culminating in the first Earth Day. In response, then Chicago-based Container Corporation of America, a large producer of recycled paperboard which is now part of Smurfit-Stone Container, sponsored a contest for art and design students at high schools and colleges across the country to raise awareness of environmental issues. It was won by Gary Anderson, a 23-year-old college student at the University of Southern California, whose entry was the image now known as the universal recycling symbol.
The symbol is in the public domain, and is not a trademark. The Container Corporation of America originally applied for a trademark on the design, but the application was challenged, and the corporation decided to abandon the claim. As such, anyone is free to use the recycling symbol, although local laws may restrict its use in product labeling, such as, for example, when its use on non-recycled goods would be misleading or deceptive.
The universal recycling symbol is an internationally-recognized symbol used to designate recyclable materials. It is composed of three chasing arrows that form a Möbius strip or unending loop.
In 1969 and early 1970, worldwide attention to environmental issues reached a crescendo, culminating in the first Earth Day. In response, then Chicago-based Container Corporation of America, a large producer of recycled paperboard which is now part of Smurfit-Stone Container, sponsored a contest for art and design students at high schools and colleges across the country to raise awareness of environmental issues. It was won by Gary Anderson, a 23-year-old college student at the University of Southern California, whose entry was the image now known as the universal recycling symbol.
The symbol is in the public domain, and is not a trademark. The Container Corporation of America originally applied for a trademark on the design, but the application was challenged, and the corporation decided to abandon the claim. As such, anyone is free to use the recycling symbol, although local laws may restrict its use in product labeling, such as, for example, when its use on non-recycled goods would be misleading or deceptive.
Gary Anderson and his original design of the recycling logo
Recycling Symbols
In 1970, the International Design Conference had a nation-wide contest that was sponsored by the Container Corporation of America to find a great design idea for recycling. The contest was in response to the growing environmental movement and the first Earth Day (Earth Day this year was on April 22, 2008).
A design was was submitted by a senior at the University of Southern California, Gary Anderson. Gary won.
The recycling design centers around the Mobius strip (a very cool endless loop discovered in 1858 by August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868), a German mathematician and astronomer). Try making one yourself. The three arrows in the shape of a triangle indicate the cycle that recycling represents, similar to the hydrologic cycle .
Remember the three R's- Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
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SAVE THE PLANET , PLANT THE TREE
PLANT THE TREE EVERY SPECIAL DAY OF THE YEAR ! ! !
VALENTINE'S DAY / MOTHERS DAY / FATHERS DAY / YOUR BIRTHDAY / ETC . .. .
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VALENTINE'S DAY / MOTHERS DAY / FATHERS DAY / YOUR BIRTHDAY / ETC . .. .
Michael Jackson - Earth Song - HQ
Michael Jackson - Earth Song - HQ
Michael Jackson - Earth Song [Video][High Quality]
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Michael Jackson - Earth Song lyrics
What about sunrise
What about rain
What about all the things
That you said we were to gain.. .
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores?
Aaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaah
What have we done to the world
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son...
What about flowering fields
Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores
Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaah
I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I know we've drifted far
Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaaah
Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaaah
Hey, what about yesterday
(What about us)
What about the seas
(What about us)
The heavens are falling down
(What about us)
I can't even breathe
(What about us)
What about the bleeding Earth
(What about us)
Can't we feel its wounds
(What about us)
What about nature's worth
(ooo,ooo)
It's our planet's womb
(What about us)
What about animals
(What about it)
We've turned kingdoms to dust
(What about us)
What about elephants
(What about us)
Have we lost their trust
(What about us)
What about crying whales
(What about us)
We're ravaging the seas
(What about us)
What about forest trails
(ooo, ooo)
Burnt despite our pleas
(What about us)
What about the holy land
(What about it)
Torn apart by creed
(What about us)
What about the common man
(What about us)
Can't we set him free
(What about us)
What about children dying
(What about us)
Can't you hear them cry
(What about us)
Where did we go wrong
(ooo, ooo)
Someone tell me why
(What about us)
What about babies
(What about it)
What about the days
(What about us)
What about all their joy
(What about us)
What about the man
(What about us)
What about the crying man
(What about us)
What about Abraham
(What was us)
What about death again
(ooo, ooo)
Do we give a damn
Michael Jackson - Earth Song [Video][High Quality]
http://rapidshare.com/files/251680240/Michael_Jackson_-_Earth_Song.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/251680171/Michael_Jackson_-_Earth_Song.part2.rar
Michael Jackson - Earth Song lyrics
What about sunrise
What about rain
What about all the things
That you said we were to gain.. .
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores?
Aaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaah
What have we done to the world
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son...
What about flowering fields
Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores
Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaah
I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I know we've drifted far
Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaaah
Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaaah
Hey, what about yesterday
(What about us)
What about the seas
(What about us)
The heavens are falling down
(What about us)
I can't even breathe
(What about us)
What about the bleeding Earth
(What about us)
Can't we feel its wounds
(What about us)
What about nature's worth
(ooo,ooo)
It's our planet's womb
(What about us)
What about animals
(What about it)
We've turned kingdoms to dust
(What about us)
What about elephants
(What about us)
Have we lost their trust
(What about us)
What about crying whales
(What about us)
We're ravaging the seas
(What about us)
What about forest trails
(ooo, ooo)
Burnt despite our pleas
(What about us)
What about the holy land
(What about it)
Torn apart by creed
(What about us)
What about the common man
(What about us)
Can't we set him free
(What about us)
What about children dying
(What about us)
Can't you hear them cry
(What about us)
Where did we go wrong
(ooo, ooo)
Someone tell me why
(What about us)
What about babies
(What about it)
What about the days
(What about us)
What about all their joy
(What about us)
What about the man
(What about us)
What about the crying man
(What about us)
What about Abraham
(What was us)
What about death again
(ooo, ooo)
Do we give a damn
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