plastic

Face masks release microplastics that may harm human health

Disposable face masks, such as surgical masks and filtering facepieces used in clinical dentistry, have been found to release harmful…

Dentistry

How to reduce plastic, tube by tube

Almost two thirds of people are not aware that you cannot recycle toothpaste tubes (Colgate-Palmolive, 2019). Colgate is proud to…

Oral health

Binning plastic cups for good

Guy Barwell explains how The Implant Centre in Hove and Haywards Heath is delivering 250,000 paper cups to referrers and…

Eco-dentistry

Is the dental industry really doing enough in the war on plastic?

Anna Olczak calls on dentists to lead the fight with dentistry’s reliance on single-use plastics. Like me, most of the dentists I know…

Eco-dentistry

First bio-based plastic toothbrush launched

Tepe has launched the first bio-based plastic toothbrush in its Good range of toothbrushes. Manufactured in Sweden using 100% green…

Dentistry

Are single-use dental items a burden on the environment?

The dental industry needs to ask itself whether it’s time to stop using single-use plastics, Neel Kothari says. For some…

Blog

Government bans plastic microbeads – comment from Linda Greenwall

The UK has banned the manufacture of products containing plastic microbeads, in a move to combat plastic pollution of the world’s oceans. The…

Aesthetic dentistry