Colgate Oral Care Free Recycling Program

This program accepts any brand of used or empty toothpaste tubes and caps, manual toothbrushes, electric toothbrush heads, toothbrush and toothpaste tube plastic packaging, floss containers and interdental brushes.

Outer cardboard packaging can be recycled with your local council, so please don’t include this in your shipment to TerraCycle.

No, you do not need to clean the packaging before dropping it off for recycling, but please remove as much of the remaining product as possible before shipping or dropping it off at a public drop-off point. Australia Post and public drop-off points will not accept dripping items, so please make sure your items are dry.

We encourage you to ship when your box is 7kg to minimise the footprint of this program. Australia Post will not accept dripping packages, so please make sure your items are dry.

Colgate sponsors this national recycling program making it free for you to participate.

Accepted Items Poster

Colgate Oral Care Brigade Main Poster

Colgate DIY Collection Bin Kit

Collect, Store, and Ship Guide

'What Happens To My Waste?' Poster

Don't Throw Me In The Bin Poster

Colgate® maze activity sheet

Colgate® colouring in activity sheet

You choose which TerraCycle free recycling programs your public drop-off point will participate in. Collectors can drop off only the rubbish accepted in those TerraCycle programs.

Colgate sponsors this national recycling program making it free for you to participate.

Public spaces that have good traffic flow and are easily accessible are excellent public drop-off points. Stores, community centers, places of worship, and libraries are great options.

It’s quite simple to set up and manage a public drop-off point, and you can recruit a group of friends to help!

Set Up: 

• Choose a location and receive permission if needed.

• Update a new or existing TerraCycle account profile with details about your public drop-off point.

• Request to join the programs you would like to participate in.

• Once you’ve been approved for the programs you requested, set up your public drop-off point location. 

Manage: 

• Oversee the location (check it is being used properly, that rubbish is being shipped when collection boxes are filled). 

• When boxes are filled, seal them, download and affix the prepaid labels, and drop off the boxes at an Australia Post.

• Continue to join programs of your choosing.

Promote: Spread awareness about your drop-off point (as you see fit) to encourage participation.

Click here to learn how to start a public drop-off point.