How to Recycle Toilet Paper Rolls

Whether their future is as a craft or another paper product, toiler paper rolls are easy to recycle.

Toilet paper rolls can add up, especially in a larger household. Luckily, when it comes to trash, toilet paper rolls provide opportunities for crafts, pet toys and functional organization. Also, since toilet paper rolls are cardboard, most recycling plants will accept them as recyclable material. With the power of the Internet, you can find your local cardboard recycling facility and make sure that your toilet paper rolls don't end up in the landfill.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

1. Use your old toilet paper rolls yourself, as packing, for crafts or as practical material: for example, you can create kids' activities or use toilet paper rolls as pet toys or spools for storing holiday lights. If you still find you want to formally recycle your toilet paper rolls, continue to step 2.

2. Contact your community's recycling center, if it has one. Ask about cardboard and paper product recycling. If recycling is picked up in your community and that recycling includes paper products, simply include your toilet paper rolls in your weekly recycling bin. If your local community does not collect such recyclables, move on to the next step.

3. Locate the nearest cardboard recycling center by entering your ZIP code at earth911.com. Combine all your cardboard and paper products, including toilet paper rolls, and take them to the nearest cardboard and paper recycling center.

Tips & Warnings

• Search online for craft ideas, such as bunny treats or dog toys, pen organizers, kaleidoscopes and so forth.

References

• The Green Parent: "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Toilet Paper and Paper Towel Tubes"
• Earth911.com

Resources

• Toilet Paper Roll Crafts