Of the hundreds of thousands of tubes of toothpaste sold in the U.S. each year, most end up in landfills. The tubes, which are usually made of a mix of materials including aluminum, aren’t accepted at ...

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 ...

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but toothpaste-tube technology has improved in a way that answers so many prayers, for so many people. And I hate it. Think of your toothpaste tube. What does it look ...

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Dainty but durable, elegant yet affordable — this was Washington Sheffield’s vision for toothpaste in a tube, first conceived in the 1870s out of his New London dental practice. From his Broad Street ...

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 ...