Unfortunately at the moment, it is not possible to buy refills as a one-off purchase - you need to subscribe to a recurring plan, which sends them every four months. This arguably makes Bite the best zero waste toothpaste option. Your first purchase comes as a jar filled with tablets, and from there on the idea is you simply refill the jar. It gives a good overview of the situation and why they have come about.īite has a model whereby it ships refills to you in biodegradable packaging, thus saving on waste. The following video is put together by Women’s Health from Cosmopolitan magazine and is dedicated to Bite, a brand of tablet toothpastes. That means fewer trucks moving products about and lower carbon emissions.

If everyone used toothpaste tablets, in 1 year alone, by my calculations that is over 309577 tonnes of weight that could be saved each year. There is also no water used, saving resources, weight and volume in packaging and shipping containers.Īlthough squeezable toothpaste tubes are made from plastic, they are difficult to recycle and few recycling plants accept them. Typically, the packaging for tablets tends to be smaller and made from recyclable plastics or card. They are also better for the environment. In a tablet form, there is no water and less need for chemicals to stabilize and preserve them. In order to produce a paste to stabilize it and make it preservable, you need many chemical ingredients. The tablets are designed to replace the regular tubes of toothpaste that most of us know and are familiar with.Īccording to Denttabs, one of the pioneers in toothpaste tablet production, conventional toothpastes consist of 50% water. Unless explicitly stated, they are essentially the same thing, just with a different name. Toothpaste tablets is a broader name to describe a toothpaste that is made into a small, chewable tablet.ĭifferent companies and brands give their own names, but just some of the variations on toothpaste tablets I have seen include:

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