Toothpaste Squeezers: Good 'til the last drop...
All right all you "green" people out there, it's time to put your money where your mouth is - or at least, where the stuff you use to clean your mouth is. Core77 Design Blog has a roundup of gadgets, gizmos, and techniques designed to help you squeeze every laste bit of toothpaste out of the tube before you toss it. They range from boring to tacky, and mostly use the same few mechanisms to get the job done - and none, to me, seems any more or less usable than the others. The exception may be the lone technique, as opposed to all the other physical products, in the bunch. If you're trying to be less wasteful in the first place, why buy one of these products that you don't really need? As for my "green" comment at the beginning of this post, surely I jest! It's unlikely that any of these products would be used enough before hitting the landfill themselves to make a net gain.
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3 comments:
I think they have missed the bigger picture here.
A more impressive (and greaner) design, would have been a tube of toothpaste that is usable enough so that we can get the toothpaste out.
Excellent point, Ruairi - if the original design were better, we wouldn't need all these bandaid solutions!
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