Our new eco toothbrushes
Plastic toothbrushes
One of the points in our mission statement is that we want to be as eco friendly and as environmentally sound as we can be. We have therefore looked at many of our everyday items and reevaluated what we need, and what alternatives we have available to us.
We think that the less we send to the landfill the better and identified plastic as being our number one enemy. In an attempt to purge ourselves from this man-made material which takes anywhere between 450 and 1000 years to decompose we noticed that the one plastic thing we can’t do away with is a toothbrush. As my dentist is always reminding me, I should change my toothbrush every three months - that is over 300 toothbrushes that I would expect to send to the landfill in my lifetime!
We think that the less we send to the landfill the better and identified plastic as being our number one enemy. In an attempt to purge ourselves from this man-made material which takes anywhere between 450 and 1000 years to decompose we noticed that the one plastic thing we can’t do away with is a toothbrush. As my dentist is always reminding me, I should change my toothbrush every three months - that is over 300 toothbrushes that I would expect to send to the landfill in my lifetime!
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So what are the options? Short of not brushing our teeth, we needed to find a toothbrush that was 100% natural and disposable in a suitable way. After a little looking and researching we finally chose an environmental bamboo toothbrush. It is fully biodegradable, quickly renewable and costs about the same that a plastic toothbrush does! And it comes in a biodegradable packaging too!
Everyone's a winner!
Everyone's a winner!
An ecological toothbrush
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