Small as they are, tossed toothbrushes certainly do create a lot of waste. Indeed, some 50 million pounds of them are tossed into America’s landfills each year. If we followed our dentist’s ...

Billions of toothbrushes are discarded every year. How can we brush our teeth in a more environmentally friendly way? When I used to work in an office, I'd keep a manual, plastic toothbrush in my desk ...

Small as they are, tossed toothbrushes create a lot of waste. Indeed, there are 100 million pounds of them in America's landfills. If we followed our dentist's recommendations and replaced our ...

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 ...

Firefly Toothbrush, a La Palma, California-based provider of children’s oral care solutions, has partnered with TerraCycle to divert its waste from landfills. The Firefly Free Recycling Program ...

OK, it's not that toothbrushes are evil, exactly, but amid our increasing scrutiny into recycling and saving the Earth, comes this fact: Every year in the United States some 450 million plastic ...