

To make paper from trees, the trees have to be ground way down by machine into a pulp before being made into proper paper. Depending on which animal is doing the manure manufacturing, "up to 40 percent of that manure is cellulose, which is then easily accessible," said Bismarck in a press statement, and who is not, for the record, known as the "maestro of manure." Yet. Some animals, it turns out, do a pretty good job pooping out paper-ready cellulose.

Because of course that's what you think of while you're driving around an idyllic island: Cretan excretions. He thought that maybe the goats were doing to the grass what paper manufacturers do to trees: turn it into cellulose that could be made into paper. was driving around Crete and watching goats eat grass and poop it out. One of the researchers who presented this idea at the ACS meeting in New Orleans - Alexander Bismarck, Ph.D.
