Toothbrushes and plastic waste

Toothbrushes and plastic waste

Brushing your teeth is the first thing you do in the morning. Most people use a plastic toothbrush, toothpaste with a plastic tube, and perhaps other plastic-packaged oral hygiene items. Even just brushing their teeth, there is so much plastic waste being generated that today hundreds of thousands of pieces of plastic waste are floating in every square kilometer of the oceans.

 

If you follow the "rule" of changing your toothbrush every 3 months, a single person consumes about 300 toothbrushes over the course of his or her lifetime. And you know what? Toothbrushes are not recyclable because small parts get stuck in the machines.

That is why we chose a bioplastic made in Germany, which contains biopolymers, lignin, natural resins, natural waxes, natural oils, cellulose, organic additives and natural reinforcing fibers. Thanks to this combination, promis brush can be thrown into household waste, as it burns with almost zero CO2 emissions, just like wood.

Become part of the new promis oral hygiene movement and help reduce plastic in the environment. Every toothbrush counts.

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