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 ...

Of the hundreds of thousands of tubes of toothpaste sold in the U.S. each year, most end up in landfills. The tubes, which are usually made of a mix of materials including aluminum, aren’t accepted at ...

You may have already noticed that tubes of toothpaste can't be recycled after you've used them up—as it turns out, most tubes contain a mix of aluminum, which is usually excluded from curbside ...

Toothpaste tubes currently on the market are impossible to recycle because the mix of plastics and aluminum contained in them. Soon, you may be able to toss your used-up toothpaste tube in the blue ...

Colgate wants to give you another reason to smile … and not just to show off your teeth The oral-care brand is launching what it says is a vegan-certified toothpaste that comes in an “industry-first” ...

Colgate wants to save you the agony of trying to squeeze out every last drop of toothpaste. It’s doing that by partnering with LiquiGlide, a company spun out of MIT’s Varanasi Research Group, on a new ...

Colgate has launched recyclable toothpaste tubes with limited edition messaging. Colgate-Palmolive has launched a recyclable toothpaste tube with limited edition messaging to build recycling awareness ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK — Toothpaste tubes currently on the ...

How many tubes of toothpaste do you think you’ve used in your life? Think of a number. Now, think of the fact that it takes the average tube of toothpaste 500 years to break down. When you factor in ...

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A man has maintained his world record title for the largest collection of toothpaste tubes. Val Kolpakov, a dentist from Alpharetta, Georgia, has a collection of thousands of toothpaste tubes, ...

The oral-care brand is launching what it says is a vegan-certified toothpaste that comes in an "industry-first" recyclable tube. The product's development is five years in the making. Most toothpaste ...