Plastic toothbrush to bamboo toothbrush



Do you know how bad your plastic toothbrushes are for the environment? Well It’s bad you use around 4-5 toothbrushes a year (every 2-3 months) that is around 287,640 kgs a year in the landfill. You use around 300 toothbrushes in your lifetime and if you times that by 60g (15x4=60) it equals 18000 kgs each in your lifetime. That's a lot.


Bamboo is a good alternative. There are heaps of companies that make bamboo toothbrushes. There is a really good company that my family uses called Toothcrush and they use bamboo and you can compost them (but you need to take the bristle out with pliers or snap it off). They have recyclable and compostable packaging. But they are quite expensive but worth it for the environment. 


You can do so much with toothbrushes like flicking the paint off it on paper or for your art project which looks really cool. You can search lots of ideas on google or your search engine. So check it out now.


by Ruby

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  1. AnonymousOctober 11, 2022 at 12:15 PM

    Ive used at least 2 toothbrushes this year. you know the Japanese ones last along time (but there plastic) and it isn't abad idea to use electronic ones because dad has been using for a long time.
    Cag-Anko

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  2. AnonymousOctober 11, 2022 at 6:44 PM

    That’s a great πŸ‘ idea πŸ’‘

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  3. AnonymousOctober 22, 2022 at 8:37 AM

    Wow

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