Colgate redesigned its toothpaste tubes so they can go into curbside recycling bins. It could eventually keep a billion tubes out of landfills each year. Every year, Americans toss a billion tubes of ...

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None of the toothpaste tubes on the market can be recycled, and there's about 560 million per year in the U.S. alone that end up in landfills." The tablets, which come in 60-tablet bottles or boxes of ...

After five years of research, Colgate-Palmolive recently revealed Australia’s first recyclable toothpaste tube. Why is this exciting? They are eager to share the design with the rest of the toothpaste ...

Plastic-based toothpaste tubes have traditionally been a no-no on the recycling front, with their flexible layers of mixed materials a thorn in the side of council recycling schemes and diligent ...

Award-winning senior researcher/writer with 25 years' experience writing about wellbeing, covering everything from indigestion remedies to insect repellents. Plastic-based toothpaste tubes have ...