Better than fishwrap

This woven basket, purchased a few months ago for US$9.99 at The Container Store, a US housewares chain, is constructed out of old, rolled-up mainland Chinese newspapers.

In a few cases, the snippets of text visible on the rolled-up strips make it possible to identify general location or date of the newspapers. Pictured above are a couple of phone numbers in Shandong Province; on the opposite side of the basket is a fragment of an article about the Lifan 520 automobile that first ran in Guangdong's Information Times in 2006.