The perks to this…

1) no more buying expensive kitty litter.. seriously, that stuff is expensive!
2) no more lugging around heavy kitty litter.. not good for someone with back issues
3) no more bloating up the landfill with clay kitty litters .. shredder paper mixed with cat waste is basically biocompostible plant food waiting to happen (b/c it’s a fecal waste mixed with a plant waste, which is combined in a ratio that can turn into compost easily). Dig a hole in your backyard, chuck it in, let it compost. We throw ours out in the trash, but since a lot of landfills are starting to siphon off methanes from the composting trash, it’s basically just biodegradeable compost trash that will eventually just turn into soil at the landfill.
4) free kitty litter! We live at an apartment that gets bombarded by adverts. They put 2 big recycle bins next to the mail boxes, and I just dig thruogh them and grab big handfuls of them to use for kitty litter all week. Only expense was the one-time cost of a shredder and the electricity cost to run it. (and the time to shred it, but that takes all of 5 minutes.. I shred one load to use while I change the box, then shred a 2nd to keep in reserve.)

Our cat got used to the shredded newspaper immediately. We use a 1.5-2′ high plastic tub for his litter box that he can jump in and out of, that way he doesn’t flick it all over. We have to put it up high to keep the dog from getting in there for a “snack”.

To empty it, we use large black trash sacks for kitchen sacks. Small white kitchen trash bags are too small to fit the entire kitty litter tub into. Every other day, when I change the cat box, I make a trash run, too. The large black trash bags make it easy to collect all the trash from around the house, dump the vacuum bin in, dump the cat box in in one go (by engulfing the box with the bag and just dumping it all into the trash bag). Then tie it all up and take it out.