Woman writes own ticket with kangaroo poo

HOBART, Australia, May 16 (UPI) -- An expatriate Scottish woman in Tasmania is turning kangaroo and wallaby droppings into money by transforming it into writing paper.

Joanna Gair, 34, turned a hobby she began in Scotland into a business after becoming disenchanted with the advertising business involving a move to Hobart.

"Someone called into the workshop and gave me a sheet of elephant dung paper as a joke," she said. "But I discovered it's a huge tourist product in Africa and Asia, and the Scandinavians do something similar with elk dung."

Now, relying partly on public donations of marsupial dung and purchases from a Hobart-area wildlife park, Gair has a thriving business manufacturing Genuine Kangaroo Poo paper, also known as Roo Poo.

The sand-colored paper begins with boiling several pounds of the animal droppings for five hours. The mixture is then pulped for five hours before being rinsed with water. The natural fiber left behind is mixed with recycled paper, and turned into writing paper, greeting cards and envelopes, the Glasgow Herald said.