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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Toothpaste tubes count among the worst-designed packaging on the shelf today. Even those of you who are meticulous about squeezing from the bottom wind up wasting toothpaste simply because it’s too ...

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Ever wondered if you can recycle toothpaste tubes? In this video, we clean, chop, and use a plasticpreneur injection moulder to create a toothbrush pot from recycled materials. The finish is distinct ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...