NewspaperWood by Mieke Meijer & Vij5

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在中国，有数据统计了2010年报纸行业每次发行量排名前20 的报纸：参考消息（350万份）人民日报（280万份）环球时报（240万份）扬子晚报（220万份）中国电视报（200万份）广州日报（185万份）体坛周报（160万份）南方都市报（160万份）齐鲁晚报（150万份）信息时报（148万份）南方周末（140万份）楚天都市报（130万份）新民晚报（120万份）北京晚报（120万份）金陵晚报（120万份）羊城晚报(117万份)新快报(113万份)成都商报(112万份)燕赵都市报(100万份)都市快报(95万份)。

尚且不论这里面的统计是否有水分，但毫无疑问，其耗费是惊人。目前设计师Mieke Meijer将报纸回收再利用做成了类似木材的材料，可以使用在各个方面中。这无疑是一个好点子，也是一个好消息。但是在我们国家看来，这似乎更为遥远，因为目前我国并没有建立起完善的垃圾回收分类及再利用体系。相比之下，这个体系的建立以及全民意识的培养更为重要。很多城市已经被垃圾所包围（点击看王久良的垃圾围城），生态环境日益恶劣。这要比“一个建筑是什么样子”“一个设计是什么样子”重要得多。意识从你我做起，而一个完善的系统建立，一个好的框架，也需要你我去努力推动或者建议。

每天都有大量的报纸被丢弃，设计师Mieke Meijer制定了一个解决方案。这种回收处理后的报纸，在被切断后，会出现类似木材的纹路，具有实木的美感。这个材料也可以像其它木材一样进行任何形式的切割，研磨，砂磨。同时还有许多设计师参与到这个新材料的设计，展品在米兰得到了展出。

这个设计的目的不在於生产一种可以大规模替代木材的材料，也不在于制定一个避免纸张浪费的计划，而是向大家展示如何将废弃物件变得更有价值。报纸无论怎样，到了第二天就会变成是旧新闻。这个报纸木材的另外一个材料是胶水，所以这个材料也存在一定可回收性问题。因此设计师力求延长材料的寿命。

NewspaperWood is a special collaboration between Mieke Meijer and the young Dutch designlabel Vij5.
– material concept: Mieke Meijer
– project development & collection: Vij5
– prototype collection by: rENs, Breg Hanssen, Greetje van Tiem, Ontwerpduo, Floris Hovers,  Christian Kocx & Tessa Kuyvenhoven

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.

Dutch designer Mieke Meijer and Dutch design studio Vij5 presented a wood-like material made from recycled newspapers at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month.

Display Cabinet by rENs

NewspaperWood is made by gluing the papers together and then cutting or sanding them to reveal lines that are similar to a wood grain.

The material has been used by designers rENs, Breg Hanssen , Greetje van Tiem , Ontwerpduo , Floris Hovers , Christian Kocx and Tessa Kuyvenhoven to create a range of prototype objects and furniture, including jewellery, a lamp and a display cabinet, which were shown in Milan.

Sample Series by rENs

NewspaperWood | KrantHout
project development & collection | Vij5
first prototype collection designed by | rENs, Breg Hanssen, Greetje van Tiem, Ontwerpduo,  Floris Hovers, Christian Kocx & Tessa Kuyvenhoven.The layers of paper appear like lines of a  wood grain or the rings of a tree …

Introducing a new material: NewspaperWood
Every day, piles of newspapers are discarded and recycled into new paper. During her study at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2003, Mieke Meijer devised a solution to use this surplus of paper into a renewed material: NewspaperWood.

NewspaperWood shows a reversing of a traditional production process; not from wood to paper, but the other way around.NewspaperWood shows a reversing of a traditional production process; not from wood to paper, but the other way around.The material can be cut, milled and sanded and generally treated like any other type of wood.

Framed by Breg Hanssen

Upcycling
About the environmental impact of NewspaperWood

EN NewspaperWood does not aim to be a large scale alternative to wood, nor to use all paper waste into a new material.The main theme in the project is ëupcyclingí with which we show how you can change a surplus of material into something more valuable by using it in another context.Although printing techniques for newspapers are nowadays efficient enough to reduce the test prints and first unusable newspapers to a minimum, there still is enough material available.Next to that we use ëyesterdayís newspaperí: the newspapers that are printed but not sold and will turn out to be old news the next day anyway ..a perfect local source for our basic material!To actually upcycle the newspapers into our new wood-like material, we (temporarily) take the newspapers out of the already existing and efficient cycle of paper-recycling.We think it would be ideal to be able to bring our own waste material back into the circle again.Therefore we use a glue to construct the material which is free of solvents and plastici-zers which would make it more difficult to recycle.With this it is not only possible to put our own sawing and sandpapering waste back into the circle, but also to bring the NewspaperWood products to the scrap yard for recycling, although we hope they will be cherished for a long time…

From A to Z by Greetje van Tiem

Paper Frames by Ontwerpduo

Press to Open by Floris Hovers

Reading Light by Christian Kocx

United by Tessa Kuyvenhoven

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