In the Belfast City Council Communications Team, we utilise a number of newspapers on a daily basis, as part of our work with the media.

Rather than discard or recycle the newspapers, we store them until we have a significant number and then we arrange for them to be donated to a local animal shelter called Almost Home Animal Rescue NI.

The shelter use the newspapers to line kennels to help keep them clean and tidy.

A volunteer comes to collect the newspapers approx. every three months and we have been doing this for around five years.