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 of us shrug it off as the price for shiny whites. But now, a new crop ...

According to a report by ThePackHub, Colgate-Palmolive actually began work on a fully recyclable solution in 2013. The result ...

For decades there was no way to recycle empty toothpaste tubes. Every minute about 38,000 of them ended up as trash, dumped in landfills or incinerators around the world.

The program incentivizes consumers, especially if they show brand loyalty to Colgate. Colgate announces major change ...

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None of the toothpaste tubes on the market can be recycled, and there's about 560 million per year in the U.S. alone that end up in landfills." The tablets, which come in 60-tablet bottles or boxes of ...

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 ...