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Tubeless Toilet Roll?

18 replies

Kyviantre · 03/09/2024 17:53

Does anyone have any recommendations for tubeless toilet roll? Cushelle just discontinued theirs, and our recycling box is so tiny it is already hard to fit everything inside it without re-adding pointless toilet rolls. Google keeps pointing me to Cushelle (I did email them and confirm that they were definitely discontinued 😔). It isn't only the space, but having gone without loo rolls for over a year, the amount of pointless cardboard having had to buy a pack with tubes feels decadent and so wasteful! So between limited recycling capacity and helping the environment, I'd like to find an alternative!

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TheFlis · 03/09/2024 17:57

Since when are Cushelle discontinuing? We got some last week and they are still for sale on the Tesco website.

Kyviantre · 03/09/2024 19:12

TheFlis · 03/09/2024 17:57

Since when are Cushelle discontinuing? We got some last week and they are still for sale on the Tesco website.

It is the Original I'm looking for, not the Quilted (if that helps?). They stopped being stocked by Sainsbury's near me, so I've been buying on Amazon until they went out of stock. Cushelle's website suggested Asda as an option, but we didn't find any there, so I ended up emailing them in a panic! As you can see, they are discontinuing the Original 😥. It might be left-over stock you're seeing that is working its way out of the system, if you can still buy them from Tescos - stock up!

Tubeless Toilet Roll?
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longdistanceclaraclara · 03/09/2024 19:22

Toilet rolls are the least of my recycling problems!

Reallybadidea · 03/09/2024 19:30

How about the extra long rolls (as in twice as many sheets) so at least you won't have as many cardboard tubes? Sainsbury's do them definitely, maybe Aldi too. Although I have to say, the rolls do fold up to almost nothing IME.

Kyviantre · 03/09/2024 19:53

I only get a tiny box for recycling cardboard - it is ridiculous here. I miss my last house that got two entire dustbins for it. Plus, seems daft to be wasting trees on something that has no purpose except waste. Hence wanting to find an alternative!

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Procrastinates · 03/09/2024 19:55

No advice in the toilet roll aspect but do you have a local school or nursery you could give your recycling to for junk modelling?

Piggywaspushed · 03/09/2024 19:57

Well, that's irritating. I did wonder why I couldn't get them. I like them because I have a household who will not be trained to dispose of the tubes in any way at all.

I now use the Sainsbury extra fat ones which are always really cheap. At least it takes a long time till I find a tube on top of a radiator or on the floor.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 03/09/2024 20:04

Think carefully before you tread the 'tubeless toilet-roll' path because you could be denying your children / grandchildren the joy of making 'binoculars' or components of 'Tracy Island'.

(Sod the environment on this occasion)

shellyleppard · 03/09/2024 20:08

Op you can turn the tubes into plant pots or @TwoLeftSocksWithHoles said Tracey island!!! 😍

LovelyDaaling · 03/09/2024 20:49

Can't you apply for another recycling box? Our council provided whopping great wheelie bins for recycling.

Kyviantre · 03/09/2024 21:36

LovelyDaaling · 03/09/2024 20:49

Can't you apply for another recycling box? Our council provided whopping great wheelie bins for recycling.

Sadly not, it is two per property, and mine is split into two, so one box for cardboard. In this age of Amazon, it is ridiculous!

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Kyviantre · 03/09/2024 21:37

Piggywaspushed · 03/09/2024 19:57

Well, that's irritating. I did wonder why I couldn't get them. I like them because I have a household who will not be trained to dispose of the tubes in any way at all.

I now use the Sainsbury extra fat ones which are always really cheap. At least it takes a long time till I find a tube on top of a radiator or on the floor.

Same! They cannot be trusted with them!

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Piggywaspushed · 03/09/2024 21:38

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 03/09/2024 20:04

Think carefully before you tread the 'tubeless toilet-roll' path because you could be denying your children / grandchildren the joy of making 'binoculars' or components of 'Tracy Island'.

(Sod the environment on this occasion)

I think my 53 year old DH is past that stage....

Kyviantre · 03/09/2024 21:39

Procrastinates · 03/09/2024 19:55

No advice in the toilet roll aspect but do you have a local school or nursery you could give your recycling to for junk modelling?

I imagine that the nearest school would likely be inundated - as a non-parent, it would feel weird to roam the streets trying to do that. I know from keeping exotic pets/hamsters, there is also a concern with bacteria (since they live in the bathroom, and everything gets plastered in it!) - I did read about hamster owners freezing/microwaving loo rolls before giving them to their pets, you'd imagine school staff would be even more concerned!

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Kyviantre · 03/09/2024 21:40

shellyleppard · 03/09/2024 20:08

Op you can turn the tubes into plant pots or @TwoLeftSocksWithHoles said Tracey island!!! 😍

Not sure what I, a grown 39 year old (who loathed Thunderbirds, the puppets creeped me out so much!) would do with a Tracey Island! Or the hundred Tracey Islands I'd have by the end of the year 😱

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shellyleppard · 03/09/2024 21:44

@Kyviantre I'm 55 and it was the one toy I always wanted lol

IrisApfel · 03/09/2024 22:29

Could you not just buy the quilted one?

I was overjoyed when I found them but for some bizarre reason my husband and offspring treat the end few sheets as a toilet roll and place them on top of the cistern just like they did with the empty toilet rolls 🙄

KnickerlessParsons · 03/09/2024 23:02

Do you have a compost heap? You can stick them in there if you do.

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