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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 132 points 10 months ago (16 children)

And now they come in disposable plastic that's poisoning the entire biosphere. Progress!

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago (4 children)

toothpaste used to come in metal tubes too. not even long ago. it's like they saw everyone else was polluting and they wanted in too smh

[–] yacht_boy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but those metal tubes were awful. I have been brushing my teeth with Tom's of Maine for decades, and I remember how much I hated those metal tubes. They always split open weeks before the tube was empty and then they'd leak and make a mess and I inevitably wasted a lot of product. When Tom finally sold to whatever corp and they switched over to the plastic tubes that don't leak and let me use all the toothpaste I paid for, I danced a little jig.

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