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 ...

Every single dental care product you use is made from plastic — no, that’s not an exaggeration. Toothbrushes have plastic handles and bristles. Floss thread is essentially a plastic string packed in a ...

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 ...

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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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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 ...

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 ...

Yep, you read the headline right. A 23-year-old digital design student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) used 3D printing technology to make a set of clear braces to straighten his ...