Do you know who invented the first plastic toothpaste tube? According to this story in the Lowell Sun, it was Westford, Mass., plastics expert Roger Brandt, who died on Dec. 8 at age 88. Brandt worked ...

Advertisement feature presented by The Consumer Goods Forum. Historically tubes of toothpaste are non-recyclable, because of the combination of different types of plastic and metal used in their ...

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 ...

When you’re brushing your teeth and you’ve squeezed out the last bit of toothpaste, you probably toss the empty tube in the trash. Few people realize that most toothpaste tubes are now recyclable—at ...