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Colgate Oral Care Free Recycling Program
All brands accepted
IMPORTANT! The Colgate Oral Care Free Recycling Program is closing. If you're an existing active participant in the program, please download your final prepaid shipping label and send your remaining waste by 30 December 2026. If you're not an existing participant, please use a participating public drop-off point. To continue recycling oral care waste after the program closes, explore our Oral Care Zero Waste Box™.
Cardboard packaging
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Toothpaste tubes
Mouthwash bottles & caps
Tubes:
If your Colgate toothpaste has the recyclable tube symbol, you can visit Australasian Recycling Label website to see if you can recycle it through your local council’s recycling program.
If your council doesn’t accept it, don’t worry—you can still recycle your tube through TerraCycle. Simply squeeze out as much toothpaste as possible and pop it in your recycling collection box.
Caps:
Colgate toothpaste caps are made of polypropylene, which isn’t usually accepted by kerbside recycling services. You can recycle the cap along with other oral care items, such as plastic toothbrushes, through TerraCycle.
Electric toothbrush heads
Manual toothbrushes
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Toothpaste tubes and caps
Floss containers
Interdentals and Floss picks
Mouthwash bottles & caps
Drop off your recycling at a location near you
Bring your recycling to a participating public drop-off point near you. It's free, and you won't need a TerraCycle account or shipping label.
How to become a public drop-off point
We’ve made getting started with the Colgate Oral Care Free Recycling Program easy! Email your request to join the program as a public drop-off point to customercare@terracycle.com.au
Get Started
Participating in this program is easy and FREE! See answers to frequently-asked questions here.
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.
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.
This program is exclusive to dental public drop-off points.
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:
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Choose a location and receive permission if needed.
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Update a new or existing TerraCycle account profile with details about your public drop-off point.
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Request to join the programs you would like to participate in.
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Once you’ve been approved for the programs you requested, set up your public drop-off point location.
Manage:
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Oversee the location (check it is being used properly, that rubbish is being shipped when collection boxes are filled).
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When boxes are filled, seal them, download and affix the prepaid labels, and drop off the boxes at an Australia Post.
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Continue to join programs of your choosing.
Promote: Spread awareness about your drop-off point (as you see fit) to encourage participation.
Colgate sponsors this national recycling program making it free for you to participate.
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.
Discover Our Recycling Process
Once collected, the oral care is cleaned and separated by material type. The fibres and plastics are recycled into raw formats that manufacturers use to make new products.
Click here to take a virtual tour of our processing facilities.