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Important!

Can you recycle toothpaste tubes? Yes, but toothpaste tubes and toothbrushes require special recycling separate from your typical aggregate recycling bin. Likely you will do a mail-in recycle to TerraCycle.

Toothpaste tubes can be Aluminum Barrier Laminate (ABL) Tubes, which are multilayer composite materials and thus more difficult to recycle.

20180714/DuckDuckGo What material are toothpaste tubes made out of
20180714/http://www.intelligentdental.com/2011/09/18/about-toothpaste-tubes-made-of-metal/
20180714/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_%28container%29
20180714/DuckDuckGo toothpaste laminate tube
20180714/DuckDuckGo ABL laminated tubes
20180714/https://tubeadvantage.com/aluminium-barrier-laminated-tube/
20180714/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copolymer

20180714/DuckDuckGo can toothpaste tube be recycled
20180714/http://earth911.com/living-well-being/health/recycling-toothbrushes-and-toothpaste-tubes/
20180714/https://livegreen.recyclebank.com/because-you-asked-can-i-recycle-toothpaste-tubes
20180714/https://livegreen.recyclebank.com/what-to-do-with-an-empty-toothpaste-tube

Other interesting notes on recycling. Don’t recycle napkins, paper towels, and tissues, even if they are not soiled, as the shorter fiber lengths makes them less likely to recyclers and can still result in quality contamination in the recycling process because of this. Likewise, fast food bags made out of 100% recycled material are less valuable for this purpose too.

20180714/https://livegreen.recyclebank.com/because-you-asked-can-you-recycle-markers-and-pens
20180714/https://livegreen.recyclebank.com/because-you-asked-can-i-recycle-sliced-cheese-wrappers
20180714/https://livegreen.recyclebank.com/earn-points/can-napkins-be-recycled-if-they-aren-t-soiled