Newsprint

:: I read this article this morning and smiled...

"From time to time a clever critic will ask how many trees were felled to enable the local newspaper to go to press with stories about Lindsay Lohan or editorials supporting the privatization of ABC stores.

The wits might want to consult Rex Springston's Sunday story about e-waste, which opened: "Virginians are creating piles of potentially dangerous waste. The problem is old electronics, or e-waste -- computers, cellphones, and other gadgets that people toss because they've found something newer and shinier."

"The old electronics are laced with pollutants, such as lead and calcium," Springston explained, "that have been linked to cancer, nervous-system damage, and other problems."

Newsprint, we might add, is so sanitary that it can be used to wrap a nice fillet of halibut, rockfish, or cod.
Newsprint also can be recycled. The paper you are holding today could contain remnants of the edition that reported the news of the last time the Cubs won the World Series. (We exaggerate.)
Our concluding advice is to buy a newspaper -- and, thereby, to go green."

:: I've got a soft spot for newspapers.

My dream job would be in a newsroom that came straight out of His Girl Friday. (Cary Grant would work their too). I'm constantly hearing how newspapers and print journalism is going extinct. It makes me sad.

So I'm big fans of people who defend newspapers and point out their good qualities.

What else can you read during breakfast and then wrap fresh caught fish in that evening?

Below are just a few amazing uses I found for recycling your newspaper. I'm sure there's millions more.

It makes fabulous wallpaper!

The Alphabet on Newspaper -- such cute & creative wall art.

Abigail Doan uses bits of newspaper to create this amazing art.

Newspaper gift bags.

A cute newspaper bouquet.

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{Article from here. Photo credit: Ted Szukalski.}

UPDATE: After posting this, I randomly came upon this cute stop-motion film from Anthology magazine titled Print Is Not Dead. So I had to come back and edit my post to share it with all of you!