Depending on your local recycling center, you can’t toss your toothbrush into the recycling bin. Well you can, but you’ll just be adding trash for the workers to pick out. And you shouldn’t throw your ...

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 ...

When you’re brushing your teeth and you’ve squeezed out the last bit of toothpaste, you probably toss the empty tube in the trash. Few people realize that most toothpaste tubes are now recyclable—at ...

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 ...

One of the UK’s most “wish-cycled” items, many brands have switched over so that they are now made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE). These brands include Colgate, Sensodyne, Aquafresh and Corsodyl.

Colgate-Palmolive Co. spent years devising a recyclable toothpaste tube. Pulling it off was a technical masterstroke, substituting plastic for a mix of materials that was historically tough to reclaim ...

One big problem remains: Many sorting centers around the US don’t accept them. The gap between Colgate’s engineering success and the practicalities of where-do-we-toss-our-empties underscores a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — A small business in Shreveport is picking up the mantel to recycle glass, razors, oral care products ...

Whether you’re a roller or a squeezer, the age-old question of what to do with the tube once every inch of toothpaste has been used has finally been answered. For Recycle Week 2025, the humble ...