These items cannot be placed in kerbside recycling bins and are usually thrown in the rubbish bin, but thanks to TerraCycle, an innovative business known for recycling the “non-recyclable”, you can now recycle toothpaste tubes, plastic toothbrushes and floss containers.

Across the world, governments are moving to ban all types of non-reusable plastic. But even those who campaign against the overuse of plastic, argue for a more nuanced understanding of its role in our lives.

A Gwelup school is seeking used toothbrushes and empty toothpaste tubes as part of a recycling competition. Students at Lake Gwelup Primary School have been busy collecting oral care waste items to recycle for the Colgate Community Garden Challenge.

For the beauty-loving eco-warrior recycling the packaging from your empty skincare tubes, tubs and make-up packaging is now available in Australia thanks to TerraCycle.

Students from Lapstone Public School are diverting the Blue Mountains community’s oral care waste from landfill for their chance to win one of five recycled community garden sets.

Leading eco retailer Biome is helping Australians divert hard-to-recycle waste from landfill with the expansion of its in-store and online recycling initiative in partnership with TerraCycle.

Cleaning teeth is helping clean up the environment in a nationwide school competition promoting sustainability. CSIROCare Black Mountain Early Childhood Centre in Acton is seeking donations of old toothbrushes to win a recycled garden set for the school.

Australia Post has launched their very first Environmental Action Plan as part a commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 25 per cent by 2020, and save $10 million every year through environmentally sustainable programs.

Increasingly, coffee capsules are proving to be as much an environmental vandal as they are the perfect start to a day. Now Twigs Florist at Varsity Lakes has stepped in to help both coffee addicts and the environment by becoming a recycling point for Nespresso coffee capsules.

When it comes to learning to take care of our environment, starting young is always best. That’s why the kids at Bonny Babes Childcare are diverting the Gold Coast community’s oral care waste from landfill for their chance to win.