Don’t throw away your cardboard toilet paper roll, you won’t imagine the things you can do with it | March 22, 2025

Recycle toilet paper
Among the most used consumer goods is undoubtedly toilet paper. Most of those on the market are held together by a cardboard roll, which 99% of the time ends up thrown away. Did you know that it can have countless uses both at home and in the garden? Below we present some solutions to reuse the internal toilet paper roll, to also do a small favor to the environment in terms of recycling.

How to use the internal toilet paper roll
Keep cords tidy, curtain folds, roll up cables and in the garden. There really are many uses that a simple cardboard roll can have, which often ends up in the trash. If you thought it was only suitable for entertaining children, here are the uses suitable for everyone.

Cardboard rolls
One of the first tricks is to use a cardboard roll to make curtains.
If you have curtains with a ring to insert into the rod, the toilet paper roll will be useful as a separator to keep the top of the curtains equidistant and well stretched, avoiding tight folds. In fact, it is enough to alternate a ring and a roll of paper to obtain a uniform effect and form nice folds. If the effect of a whole roll is too much for your curtains, you can always divide it in half to obtain smaller but still well-ordered folds.

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