NewspaperWood

Dutch designer Mieke Meijer and design firm Vij5 created wood made from compressed newspaper

Every day, piles of newspapers are discarded and recycled into new paper. Mieke Meijer has come up with a solution to use this surplus of paper into a renewed material. When a NewspaperWood log is cut, the layers of paper appear like lines of a wood grain or the rings of a tree and therefore resembles the asethetic of real wood. The material can be cut, milled and sanded and generally treated like any other type of wood.

Via Make:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/03/newspaperwood.html

Dutch designer Mieke Meijer and design firm Vij5 created wood made from compressed newspaper