“Green balls”: from a litter of Chinese pandas will be doing wipes

“Green balls”: from a litter of Chinese pandas will be doing wipes

Giant pandas in China attracts countless tourists and serve as a tool of “soft diplomacy”. Now this animal will use as a source of valuable raw materials for the production of tissue paper.

Giant pandas in China attracts countless tourists and serve as a tool of “soft diplomacy”. Now this animal will use as a source of valuable raw materials for the production of tissue paper.

A national Park of Chengdu in Sichuan province on Monday signed a contract with a pulp and paper companies for the supply of a litter of pandas, which in China is called “green balls”.

Firm will process fiber-rich excrement per swipe, according to the Chinese newspaper “Chengdu Shanbao”. News is also widely sold on the Chinese state media.

An adult Panda produces on average up to 10 kilograms of feces per day. Apart from feces, pandas every day to produce 50 kilograms of food waste is mostly uneaten bamboo stalks, which they spit out.

In accordance with the signed agreement of the pulp and paper company, Sichuan Qianwei Fengsheng Paper Company weekly will be collected from the reserve all the waste. Earlier in the reserve they either simply discarded or used as fertilizer.

At the recycling plant litter pandas will undergo a 60-step procedure of processing, which includes boiling, pasteurization and extracting of pulp.

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