"The transition ... showcases real leadership in sustainable innovation." Colgate announces major change impacting all of its ...

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.

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 ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Colgate wants to give you another ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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, ...

They’re brushing away their carbon footprint. Colgate launched a new recyclable toothpaste tube — with toothpaste that the company says has been certified by the Vegan Society. The product, called ...

A man has maintained his world record title for the largest collection of toothpaste tubes. Val Kolpakov, a dentist from Alpharetta, Georgia, has a collection of thousands of toothpaste tubes, ...

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 ...

Toothpaste is one of those household staples that we usually associate with keeping our pearly whites shining bright. But ...

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 ...