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Toothpaste tube in a bathroom bin
Industry collaboration eliminates toothpaste tube contamination from recycling streams

A collaboration between major oral care manufacturers and WRAP has eliminated contamination from 252 million toothpaste tubes annually by redesigning packaging to use mono-material high-density polyethylene (HDPE) construction.


The industry-wide shift addresses a persistent challenge for material recovery facilities, where toothpaste tubes have long created processing complications due to aluminium sheets sandwiched between plastic layers. This traditional construction rendered tubes... More

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Bales of plastic recycling waiting to be processed
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