During my lifetime, I’ve used and thrown away about 200 toothbrushes (around four per year, like my dentist has always advised). Each one, made entirely of plastic, is still sitting in a landfill ...

Toothpaste is a daily staple in more than 300 million Americans’ oral hygiene routines, and more people are looking for sustainable oral care products that are made with safe ingredients and reusable ...

A bit of (depressing) trivia: An estimated 1 billion plastic toothpaste tubes end up in landfills each year. But one sustainability-minded company, Bite, is trying to change that. Introducing ...

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At first glance, Bite toothpaste bits look like candy mints, but once you bite down and start brushing with a wet toothbrush, it foams up just like the standard toothpaste you’re used to — but with a ...

Better & Better unveiled a collection of organic, vegan toothpastes and a reusable dispenser system that eliminates the need for a traditional plastic toothpaste tube. The toothpaste is housed in a ...

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Brushing your teeth is essential to oral hygiene. But do you know what’s actually in your toothpaste? And why it's in a plastic tube? One oral–care company was founded on these questions. Known as ...

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 ...