After Reading This, You Might Stop Buying Plastic Toothbrushes
During my lifetime, I’ve used and thrown away about 200 toothbrushes (around four per year, like my dentist has always advised). Each one, made entirely of plastic, is still sitting in a landfill somewhere. I imagine them buried like corpses in a graveyard family plot alongside all the brushes my parents, grandparents, and great grandparents used, because they’re all still there, too. Plastic toothbrushes take 500 or more years to decompose.
