Kathmandu, Aug. 19 -- Two youth entrepreneurs are producing paper from elephant dung for the first time in Sauraha, Chitwan. Keeping the proper elephant dung management and deforestation in case of producing paper in mind, they came up with the idea of producing paper out of elephant dung.

paper is coming from elephant dung.

"We have sold approximately 4,600 sheets of papers so far", said Sunny Rajopadhaya, the co-founder of Ecoorb Initiative, a small local business group working under the guidance of Nepal Communitere, a non-profit organization. "The papers we make from elephant dung are turned into gift cards, pens and pencils", he added. "The 20 X 30 inches 200 grams paper is sold for Rs. 50."

An elephant excretes 200 kg of dung on ...