Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. They're popular with people all around the world. They are certainly a treasure of our country. Then how about their dung（粪便）? Is it thrown away? No, it is treasures, too. How?
The panda keeper provides an adult panda with about 25 kilos of bamboo every day. Of that, the panda will eat about eleven kilos— the most delicious parts. Because the panda can't digest(消化) all the bamboo completely, its dung includes much undigested bamboo. Can people make use of it? It seems impossible for many people. However, someone turned it into paper successfully.
"In my opinion, it's a great achievement," a panda keeper says. "In the past, we didn't think the dung was useful, so we just threw it away like rubbish. But now workers come and take the dung away. They use the dung to make paper. They also make notebooks and bookmarks. It is also good for the environment."
However, the paper doesn't sell well at the Panda Base. It is not popular with tourists. Most of them won't buy it after they visit the Panda Base. "A box of paper is 43 Yuan," They said. "That's quite expensive." If you see the paper at the Panda Base, will you buy it?
Pandas are popular with people all over the world and they area treasure in our eyes. But do you know their dung is also treasures? An adult panda only eats less than half of the 25 kilos of bamboo from its keeper a day. The panda can't digest all the bamboo, so the panda's dunga lot of undigested bamboo. People find the dung is useful and turn it into paper. It's also environmentally friendly. However, mostdon't want to buy the paper because of the high price. As a result, the paper doesn't sell well as the Panda Base. |
