Toothpaste

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Education

See oral care product

Toothpaste tubes can be recycled.

Reduce

Reduce the need for plastic toothpaste tubes by buying tooth tablets, toothsoap or making your own in a recyclable jar.

Reuse

Plastic toothpaste tubes can be cleaned, the bottom edge snipped and refilled with home-made toothpaste.

They can also be used to pipe icing onto baked goods.

Recycle

Toothpaste tubes can be recycled at the Whanganui Resource Recovery Centre in the oral products wheelie bin. 

Disposal

Keep plastic toothpaste tubes from landfill where they will not biodegrade.