Papter towel and toilet paper rolls can be recycled or composted! If you have a compost pail in the bathroom (which we recommend due to being able to compost tissues and cotton swaps with paper sticks), toilet paper rolls can go into the compost as well!
Empty Rolls Only
Toilet paper and paper towels cannot berecycled. Make sure that only empty rolls are recycled with cardboard.
Compost Soiled Tubes
If your cardboard tubes are wet, greasy or food-soiled, don’t recycle them. Add them to your home compost instead.
Ways to Reduce
Put a Recycling Bin in the Bathroom
Empty toilet paper rolls often never make it into the recycling binbecause theyget mixed with garbage. Make it easier to recycle these tubes by placing asmall recycling bin in your bathrooms.
Ways to Reuse
Tidy Up Electrical Cords
An empty toilet paper roll can help you storeelectrical cords. Just fold up the cord, stick it inside the tube and put it away. If you keep a lot of cords, you can label each tube for easy identification.
Organize Hair Bands and Leftover Yarn
Keep all your hair bands together by wrapping them around an empty cardboard tube. Leftover yarn can also be wrapped around a tube to stay organized and keep it from tangling.
Store Wrapping Paper
Wrapping paper keep coming unrolled? Cut a lengthwise slit in a cardboard tube and clasp it around the roll of wrapping paper to keep it from unrolling. You won’t crease the paper like you do with rubber bands.
Neaten Up Your Closet
Cardboard tubes work great as impromptu boot shapers. Just stick a couple in each boot to keep them from slouching. You can also cut slits lengthwise in the tubes and slip them over your pants hangers to prevent your pants from creasing.
