Twice a day we carry out the same old minty ritual—several up-and-down strokes, rinse and spit. If the experience is a bore, most of us shrug it off as the price for shiny whites. But now, a new crop ...

Nestlé, Kraft Foods and Mondelez International are helping fund a new commercial-scale recycling plant that can turn old toothpaste tubes into aluminum and fuel in only three minutes.This type of ...

Schools can turn old toothpaste tubes and toothbrushes into fresh supplies in a contest announced by Colgate, ShopRite and TerraCycle. Between now and June 30, schools can collect used oral care waste ...

A tube of toothpaste is not the easiest thing to recycle. But what if you didn’t have to worry about recycling the tubes at all? The Kind Lab, a company based out of Los Angeles, has officially ...

Toothpaste tubes and other squeezable plastic containers are getting closer to being more sustainable in the U.S. Some 90% of toothpaste tubes on the market are now made in a way that makes them ...

In order to combat the hundreds of millions of empty toothpaste tubes that are destined for landfill across the world each year, Canadian entrepreneurs Mike Medicoff and Damien Vince have created a ...