Mieke Meijer came up with the idea to use piles of discarded daily newspaper making it into a renewed material. The layer of paper appear like lines of a wood grain and the rings of a tree just like a real wood when the Newspaper Wood is cut. It can be cut, milled and sanded and generally treated like other type of wood.
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Laminated newspaper. Assemble all sorts of colored and decorated papers and foils, then
the (CNC) milled or carved equivalent of Chinese lacquerware. Harkens back to Mythbusters‘ improvement of Pykrete, Episode 116,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2009_season)#Pykrete_Peril