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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twice a day we carry out the same old minty ritual—several up-and-down strokes, rinse and spit. If the experience is a bore, most ...

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 ...

Among the bathroom-related design woes out there, there are few as frustrating as the toothpaste tube. Even when we know it’s gone, we act like there there’s always just a little more toothpaste to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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” ...

Before a 19th-century Connecticut inventor named Washington Wentworth Sheffield came up with the idea of using a collapsible lead tube for long-term toothpaste storage, people used to keep the stuff ...

As with many beauty products in the world of luxury, it turns out that toothpaste isn't really necessary. Sure, it can freshen breath and help whiten teeth, but the real benefits of brushing come from ...