We brush our teeth when we wake up and when we go to bed, and what do we put on toothbrush…TOOTHPASTE! Toothpaste is a commodity we use in our everyday lives… at least I HOPE it is for everyone. Since we use it everyday, we have a tendency to go through a tube of toothpaste quickly. When it seems like you’re almost out, you might roll it up to get the remaining toothpaste to squeeze out or you might simply throw it away because it’s too much work to get a little toothpaste out. So why throw away good toothpaste? Well I have a solution for you! Invest in a toothpaste squeezer to push all the toothpaste on the bottom to the top. You’ll be surprised to find out how much toothpaste is still in the tube when you think it’s empty. You can find a toothpaste squeezer typically anywhere you can buy toothpaste and you can find some for less than a dollar.
Yes this is a piece of plastic you a buying, but the key element to this EGOlogical tip is the concept of REDUCE. By investing in a toothpaste squeezer you will be prolonging the life of your toothpaste tube, therefore throughout your life you will greatly reduce the amount of toothpaste you buy. This will reduce the amount of pollution since you are reducing your toothpaste consumption rate and it will reduce the amount of toothpaste tubes you throw into the landfills because you won’t go through them as fast. Investing in a toothpaste pusher will also save you money because you won’t have to buy toothpaste as often. You can reuse your toothpaste squeezer for a very long time as well. I’ve had mine for over ten years and it still works amazing. As hypocritical as it sounds, this little piece of plastic will save a ton of plastic from the landfills!
One last tip, when shopping for a new tube of toothpaste after you've squeezed everything you can out of your old one, go ahead and buy the bigger tube. You know you're going to use it all anyway so you might as well. Buying in bulk reduces the amount of packaging over time and will also save you money.
One last tip, when shopping for a new tube of toothpaste after you've squeezed everything you can out of your old one, go ahead and buy the bigger tube. You know you're going to use it all anyway so you might as well. Buying in bulk reduces the amount of packaging over time and will also save you money.
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