To solve the problem of getting all the toothpaste out of the tube easily, you can purchase a small plastic device that is ...

Colgate redesigned its toothpaste tubes so they can go into curbside recycling bins. It could eventually keep a billion tubes out of landfills each year. Every year, Americans toss a billion tubes of ...

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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, on a new ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Life sometimes contains minor annoyances. You might spill milk, stub your toe, or pour a little too much hot sauce onto your plate. Unfortunately, we still can’t build time machines to just turn back ...

The supposed TV ad depicts a manly toothpaste tube shooting its product into the mouth of a womanly toothbrush.