What happens to old newspapers....

Regardless of which paper one reads, the basic concept of the newspaper is to inform the reader of current events, sell advertising and provide current information on and for the target audience. Old newspapers are by design, obsolete. There is little use for the movie listings from 2 years ago or even 2 months ago, or the sale at the automobile lot as you'd hardly find that information useful after the fact. What old newspapers are good for in one regards is research. Finding current events of times gone by or getting a feel for the pulse of a society, sort of a snapshot in time. They are printed on the cheapest possible material, with no intention of having them endure the elements or rigors of time. I've worked for a newspaper for over 23 years, one of our sayings is "old news is worthless". It's always been true. Not all newspapers are written by liars I might add. That's a blanket statement with no factual basis what so ever. You need to find different newspapers if you think that.

"Today's newspaper wraps tomorrow's fish."

I dunno, she was dressed quite normally at the last ABCTales event.

I use them to line the bottom of my parrots cage, he certainly seems to enjoy shitting on them!!

Also find them useful when housetraining puppies..

...papier mache projects. You could cover up your boring lego models with old newspapers and end up with something with cool curves...

Can recommend the heart-breaking book "Double Fold" by Nicholson Baker, which tells the story of how crazy bureacrats and technology pushers have managed to replace unique antique books and newspapers with virtually unreadable microfilmed replacements which are decaying far quicker than the paper they are intended to replace. The book also tells you how trains in Egypt were initially fuelled by buring bandages taken from the thousands of mummies they'd dug up, which were also used to pulp into paper, for a few months at least.

The mind boggles at the things you know, Andrew! xx