If you’ve collected a lot of toilet paper rolls at home, you don’t have to throw them away. You can reuse them and, with a little skill and creativity, transform them into countless items and decorations.
Used cardboard rolls, how to recycle them
Despite its simplicity and apparent uselessness, an object such as a used cardboard tube can be reused and transformed into something new and original.
At home, many used cardboard tubes end up in the trash every week—not just toilet paper rolls, but also kitchen rolls. But thanks to the magic of creative recycling, these rolls can be transformed into original, useful, and beautiful objects. Let’s take a look at how they can make a big impact.
You can use the paper rolls you’ve already used to make practical covers to neatly store power cables in drawers.
You can also make cute pencil holders out of toilet paper rolls. After painting them, simply glue the rolls together with vinyl glue to create a unique pencil holder—a fun gift idea.
Make a jewelry box from used cardboard rolls
First, we take the cardboard tubes to be recycled in various sizes and cut them to different heights using a metal saw. We make one 15 cm, one 7 cm, and two 10 cm .
Then we take a plate and place it on a cardboard to make a round shape, about 22/23 cm, then we cut out the cardboard with scissors and start painting it with acrylic paint.
We can paint it in any color we want, white or silver, and then let it dry. Then we do the same with the rollers and paint them all with acrylic paint .
Then, using a heat gun, we attach a ribbon with beads and glue it to the cardboard, catching the excess beads.
We attach the ribbon with the beads in several places along the edge, doing this on both sides of the cylinder. We repeat this on the other 10 cm cylinder .
Now, still using hot glue, we make an edge with the cord in a
