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photo: Every day, piles of newspapers are discarded and recycled into new paper. Mieke Meijer  has devised 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 aesthetic of real wood. The material can be cut, milled  and sanded and generally treated like any other type of wood.’


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Every day, piles of newspapers are discarded and recycled into new paper. Mieke Meijer has devised 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 aesthetic of real wood. The material can be cut, milled and sanded and generally treated like any other type of wood.’

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