A few interesting facts about newspapers are that:
On average, paper materials including newspapers take between two and ten weeks before they biodegrade. However, it depends on their thickness.
In a regular working week, 54% of adults aged between 18-24 read newspapers.
In the UK, readers spend around £2.8 billion on newspapers every year.
It can take around 500,000 trees to produce all the Sunday papers sold each week in the UK.
The UK’s oldest daily national newspaper is The Times, which was founded as the Daily and Universal Register back in 1785. It changed its name officially in 1788 to The Times.