I’m gonna come right out and say it….
I’m on a mission to get plastic toothbrushes banned.
There’s no reason to make them out of plastic, they are designed and recommended to be thrown away after 3 months, and those plastic handles are going to be around for hundreds if not thousands of years. Governments are already banning single use plastics (great!), but plastic toothbrushes, which have a short life before being thrown away, are no different. They should be banned. The ocean can’t afford any more plastic waste, so if something we have to throw away doesn’t HAVE to be made out of plastic, it shouldn’t be. Even an 11 year old can see that.
To achieve this, four things need to happen:
- Bamboo toothbrushes need to be widely used by consumers, AND THEN
- Large retailers will sell them, AND THEN
- Large manufacturers will make them, AND THEN
- Governments can ban the plastic ones
When I founded The Turtle Tribe in 2018, none of these things were really happening. BUT SINCE THEN, there’s been an explosion in bamboo toothbrush brands, the large retailers have started stocking one or two bamboo toothbrushes (although often in plastic packaging – duh!), COLGATE have launched worldwide a bamboo toothbrush, and state governments in Australia are implementing or considering single-use plastic bans.
We’re on our way! I invite you to join The Turtle Tribe and share the journey with me, because we’re going to get this done. There are lots of problems in the world, and I can’t fix them all, but maybe, and with your help, I can fix this one thing. Join me. Let’s do it together…