Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small ...

Our landfills are a graveyard for old, plastic toothbrushes. Last year, 495 million nonelectric toothbrushes were purchased in the U.S. They’re not recyclable, which means the vast majority get tossed ...

According to Colgate, Americans bought more than 495 million manual toothbrushes last year. Most of them ended up in a landfill because they cannot be easily recycled, Colgate said. Now Colgate has ...

According to Colgate-Palmolive, more than 495 million adult manual toothbrushes were purchased in the U.S. in 2020 and likely will end up in landfills because they cannot be easily recycled. This ...

When Colgate was developing its new low-waste Keep toothbrush, which has a reusable aluminum handle and replaceable heads (a starter pack costs $9.99; additional heads are $4.99 for two), the company ...

Our oral care routines contribute tonnes of packaging materials to landfill each year, from plastic manual toothbrushes to electric toothbrush heads. If you're looking for products that claim to make ...