The new toothpaste tube is a "squeezable" 13-layer structure of a resin that's typically thought of as rigid, Colgate said. "The target all along was existing recycling streams.

Designing a recyclable toothpaste tube is not as straightforward as removing the aluminum layer and creating a tube made completely from plastic. Heaslip says all-plastic tubes already exist, but ...

Every year, 1.5 billion tubes of toothpaste go into landfills. It will take each and every single one of those tubes 500 years to break down.

There are a few toothpaste tubes in Kolpakov’s collection that have historic significance, including those that were dug out of World War II trenches or were used by astronauts on space missions.

Most of the world's toothpaste tubes are made from a mix of materials, making them hard, if not impossible, to recycle. According to Colgate-Pamolive (which has nearly 40% of the global market ...

“Toothpaste tubes take over 500 years to break down and are unable to be recycled," Medicoff and Vince say. "If we want to be sustainable, a fundamental change is required.

Zonweiss later came in tubes and is often credited as the first toothpaste in a tube, but that honor allegedly belongs to one Dr. Sheffield.

An Arizona State University student's toothpaste tube prototype forces every last bit to come out by folding down like an accordion. Nicole Pannuzzo We've all been there: The dreaded end of the ...