The academy’s trash is now a Los Angeles woman’s brand new carpet.

Content creator, Paige Thalia, was able to secure a piece of the Oscars ceremony’s red carpet for herself after finding rolls of it in a dumpster.
“I was walking my dog a few nights ago by the Dolby while they were setting up for the Oscars,” Thalia told The Post. “I just moved into a new apartment and was looking for a rug for a specific spot…but couldn’t find anything that wasn’t crazy expensive.”
Paige Thalia unrolls a used red carpet from the Oscars.TikTok/@hellopaigethalia

The content creator was able to secure a piece of the Oscars ceremony’s red carpet for herself after finding rolls of it in a dumpster.TikTok/@hellopaigethalia
In a reel shared by Thalia on Monday, she traveled to the Dolby Theatre, the location of the Oscars ceremony. Security allowed her to climb up some green dumpsters to take a piece of the carpet, she said.
“When I first moved to LA in 2017 I went to an event at the Dolby the morning after the Oscars,” she said. “They had a ripped up pile of red carpet and let me take a tiny piece!”
Multiple, large rolls of the carpet can be seen in the video.
“If you want some red carpet, it’s at the dumpster on Hawthorne Avenue,” she said while carrying out the carpet in her arm.

A worker performs final preparations on the red carpet for the Academy Awards.dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images
Later, she’s shown vacuuming the carpet now laid out on the floor of her residence.
“Living so close now, and genuinely needing a rug anyway, I thought I’d walk down in the morning and find a crew member dismantling everything to ask,” she said. “When I saw the carpet was already gone, I assumed I was too late, then was surprised to find it a block away! So I didn’t expect it but I often go into things like this with high hopes.”
In another video posted Tuesday, Thalia provided an update where she ran into some men with boxcutters after checking again if the carpet was still there. They moved it back behind the security gate and would not let anyone have it, she said.
“I’m sorry I brought attention to it before you guys could all get some,” she said in the video.
Other people seemed to be able to confirm Thalia’s claims of the red carpet being in the dumpster. One commenter shared a photo and said she was also able to get a piece of the carpet later on Monday.
The Post reached out to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organizes the Oscars ceremony, for details on the discarded carpet, but did not hear back.
Many famous celebrities stepped onto that very same carpet at this year’s Oscars hosted Sunday night.
A picture showing trash, including discarded water bottles and snack packets, strewn across Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre also got a lot of attention on social media — sparking backlash over the hypocrisy of the elite, who grandstand about the environment.
“Aren’t some of them environmentalists?” one critic pointed out. “Where’s all that ‘protect the planet’ energy now?”
A source within the Academy insisted the social media post was taken out of context and was a “misunderstanding.”
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