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Cartoon: Toothpaste tubes → Toothpaste tablets Two minutes brushing,500 years in landfill.

Instead of

Toothpaste tubes Toothpaste tablets

Why switch

Healthier

Same clean teeth — a tablet you chew then brush, no plastic tube needed.

Greener

Most tubes are multi-layer plastic and aluminium that recycling cannot separate, so they go to landfill.

The impact

You, per year 4 plastic tubes
All of the world 32.4 billion plastic tubes skipped / year

If everyone across the world switched, every year that’s:

  • 32.4 billion plastic tubes

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Reduce

A jar of tablets replaces a row of tubes — one purchase covers months.

Reuse

Refill the same glass jar or tin from a paper pouch.

Recycle

Paper and glass packaging recycle or compost; no laminate tube to bin.

Sources

  1. Toothpaste tubes are multi-layer plastic-and-aluminium laminate that kerbside recycling cannot separate, so most reach landfill (industry estimate ≈1.5 billion tubes/year)
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