Check out below website that provides advice for businesses

www.letsrecycle.com/materials/packaging/index.jsp

If your local council collects green waste and makes compost from it they may be able to add them to it.

Hi,

Whereabouts is your company based?
I might like to buy a bunch of them off you.

Cheers,

Offer the tubes to local schools to be used in crafts.

Glue the tubes side by side and stack them to be used as rolled-up poster holders.

Ask local kids for ideas - they’ll think of containers, stilts, etc.

Bind a bunch of them together and use them as a table base. I’ll bet that if you get enough of them together, they’ll support just about anything.

As there is such a large volume each week you should discuss any possibilities with your current waste contractor on how to deal with this highly recycable item. It shouldn’t cost extra and would save ££ in the long term as youwould be diverting the 3000 pw from landfill

can you return them to the company you purchase them from or however high in the supply chain?
listing on a site like craigslist in your city for storage, crafting, building playhouses, possibly. you’d get people’s ideas and comments through them.
pleae let us know what happens.

Find a company that uses a similar quantity in a week - for example, a poster printing company - and work out a deal with them. I’m sure they’d be happy not to have to pay for new ones.

Check out this architects paper tube structures. They might inspire you to build a playhouse or a sculpture or something.

http://www.shigerubanarchitects.com/SBA_WORKS/SBA_PAPER/SBA_Paper_index.htm

The architecture firm I used to work for in Seattle used the cores from the 36″ plotter paper on a children’s daycare project for a fun wall covering.

They also built a tradeshow display which bolted the tubed together and could be disassembled and reused.

Here’s another one - biodegradable garden bench

http://lwindesign.com/

Contact a green paper mill. It should be able to be recycled into paper just like anything else. There is also a building company in the united states that is making quite effective planking with polymers and recycled cardboard.

Schools are an excellent idea - I have seen our poster tubes from work transformed into binoculars, flower pots and part of a carnival parade! Offer your local school, playschools, after school clubs, community groups the option, you may be surprised what they can make use of!

A company near here that specializes in drapery fabric uses these tubes to roll thier fabric onto, both for sales and to store it. Is there a similar company that would use some of your tubes?

I use similar tubes, on a small scale, as uprights in my book shelves. Made with scavenged planks in true student fashion, I was bored with the idea of old bricks to build them up, so I got some rolls that had been left out with rubbish and sawed them into lengths. They can take quite a weight of books.
I also use tall, narrow plantpots, and the tubes and tins that good whisky bottles come in - I have a lot of book shelves!

My any might be interested to use some of the tubes as we are at present seeking a few hundred tubes 165cm x 8cm approx for our own use.

Where are you?

There are companies who deal in reusing packaging;
http://www.vpkgroup.com
http://www.getpackin.org

also this company make large items i.e kids furniture toys out of recycling cardbord
http://www.paperpod.co.uk/

I would be interested in taking a load off of your hands that could become regular, where are you please.

ThePackagingStore.co.uk

Stuff them full of waste/shredded paper and make fire starting tubes out of them.

Try contacting a business that helps and works with blind people. They often use them to help the blind with projects and they print braille material on the tubes.

Hi,

I can buy all 3,000 of your tubes each week. Please get intouch

Asif
OSC Recycling

asif,
we have cores of different sizes and lengths, we will gladly sell them to you at a very reasonable price, please contact me
Carl

I have at least 100-150 per week you can have american carpet 100 chelmsford rd billerica ma 01862

Hello,
I am student in product design at Central Saint Martins School in London, I am really interested about recycling cardboard tubes.Have you still have some? That would be amazing!
Please contact me oscarlhermitte@hotmail.fr
thank you.

have approx 6 trailer loads of cores 2 to 4 inch diameter they were used for coner posts in boxes they are about 3/8 to1/2 inch thick and 4ft long

Hi i would be intrested in the cores if they are for sale? Where are you based? is it a possibility to post them?

Hello Bob,
please get in touch w/me.
I would like to use some of your tubes on a furniture project we are developing!!! you take the credits ;)
Best,
P
www.ecosystemsbrand.com

Good afternoon Asif,

We also have spare card tubes occasionally. Do you still have a need or are you over run with them now?

Sandra gsn

You can offer them to a bulb-recycling factory. They send tubes like this to the customers to collect their old lightbulbs. Search for a factory in your area

Please contact me! My school is crying out for cardboard tubes right now!

I would be interested in talking to you about re-using cardboard tubes, I am an art teacher and I also make posters, so have two outlets for recycling your by-product.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Cut to smaller size, fill with dirt, start seedlings. Plant entire container.

Hello,
I am student in product design at Central Saint Martins School in London, I am really interested about recycling cardboard tubes.Have you still have some? That would be amazing!
Please contact me
thank you.

My email:
oscarlhermitte@hotmail.fr

Hello Bob,
We are building furniture and would like to get some of your tubes, please email me.
visit www.ecosystemsbrand.com
tnx
P

Contact your local Scrapstore - these are organisations (usually charities or not for profit) that collect scrap items from local businesses that would useful in children and young people’s creative projects. There are around 100 in the country and if you do a search for a scrapstore in your local area, I’m sure you’ll find one. Cardboard tubes are an invaluable resource for crafts!

If you still have them, is it possible to get a sample. My company may be able to use them.

I too have many cores that I am having trouble disposing of.

We have a few sizes, 270, 300, 350 & 400mm long, all at 76mm diameter.

I would estimate we have a suplus of 2-300 a week, if anyone is intersted in these please contact me, as it troubles me to be land-filling a perfectly good & recycleable product.

Rod

Barbara Short, or anyone else needing tubes, if you need samples or would like to take mine then I can be contacted at rod@celebration.co.uk

We also have many cardboard tubes. Most are 55-58″ long, 2-1/2″ in diameter with a 1/4″ thick wall. There are some smaller and some larger with different diameters and thicknesses. We are a sewing shop and our fabric comes on these tubes. All of the tubes are clean and in good to excellent condition. Anyone interested can contact me. Thanks

i seem to have the same problem as most people on here i have a couple of hundred cardboard tubes for re-cycling every week and am trying to find a solution that does not involve sending them to landfill . the tubes we generate are approx 13″long.4 1/4″ wide and a 1/4″ thick . they are very solid and could be used for various uses. we are based in worcestershire and would be more than happy to give them free of charge to any schools who would like them or to do a deal with any company who would like to have them on an ongoing basis . or if anyone has any new bright ideas for desposal please let me know .