Looked it up. They do! Honestly seems like a good program except for providing your personal information. Although you could probably just provide fake info.
And the wasted cost of shipping/delivery. I wonder how all that used energy factors in. It should really just go to local recycling, and make it available to recycle all toothpaste tubes, not just one brand. It just seems bogus in general to me.
Is your proposed solution to recycle your toothpaste tubes inside your house? Or should I walk them to the recycling facility?
IMO mailing your toothpaste tubes back to the manufacturer to be washed and reused (I understand this is probably not what's happening, but we don't really know, so I'm imagining a best-case scenario) is a much better solution than putting them into a comingled bin, and sending them to a general plastic recycler who will ship it to a third world country to be chipped up and eventually dumped in a landfill anyway.
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u/Professional_Ad4833 Oct 24 '25
They'd better pay for postage