Bring your recycling to a participating Community Collection Hub near you. It's free, and you won't need a TerraCycle account or shipping label.
This map is constantly being updated
Simply request to join this programme, and once you are confirmed, your location will show up on the Community Collection Hub map. Set up boxes that community members can fill with their rubbish to be recycled, and send full boxes to TerraCycle at no cost to you.
As of 20 June 2022 the Colgate Oral Care Recycling Programme will accept Colgate-branded oral care waste only, with other brands of oral care waste no longer accepted after 20 June 2022.
Please make sure you send us your non-Colgate branded oral care waste ASAP to ensure it arrives by 20 June for recycling. Colgate will continue to sponsor the Oral Care Recycling Programme to offer a free end-of-life solution for their products
Starting and managing a TerraCycle Community Collection Hub is easy and free! See answers to frequently-asked questions here. Can’t find the answer to your question on this page? Learn more about becoming a Community Collection Hub.
It’s quite simple to set up and manage a Community Collection Hub, and you can recruit a group of friends to help!
Set Up:
Manage:
Promote: Spread awareness about your Hub (as you see fit) to encourage participation.
Allocate: As you accumulate TerraCycle recycling rewards, choose which charities will receive donations from your points.
Colgate sponsors this national recycling programme making it free for you to participate.
Public spaces that have good traffic flow and are easily accessible are excellent Community Collection Hubs. Stores, community centers, places of worship, and libraries are great options.
You choose which TerraCycle free recycling programmes your Community Collection Hub will participate in. Collectors can drop off only the rubbish accepted in those TerraCycle programmes.
Earn TerraCycle points by recycling with us! You can redeem your points in the form of a donation to a school or charity of your choice. Thanks to the recycling efforts of our collectors, we've raised over $45 million dollars globally for schools and charities through our recycling programmes.
Click here to learn more about our Recycling Rewards Programme
We’ve made getting started with the Oral Care Free Recycling Programme easy! Simply download a free shipping label to ship your used oral care to TerraCycle, and we’ll recycle it.
As of 20 June 2022 the Colgate Oral Care Recycling Programme will accept Colgate-branded oral care waste only, with other brands of oral care waste no longer accepted after 20 June 2022.
Please make sure you send us your non-Colgate branded oral care waste ASAP to ensure it arrives by 20 June for recycling. Colgate will continue to sponsor the Oral Care Recycling Programme to offer a free end-of-life solution for their products
Participating in this programme is easy and FREE! See answers to frequently-asked questions here.
Colgate sponsors this national recycling programme making it free for you to participate.
Any brand of used toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes, plastic toothbrush packaging, floss packaging, interdental brushes, stand up toothpaste bottles and any kind of non-electric toothbrush and all affiliated non-recyclable packaging.
NOTE: Electric toothbrushes, battery toothbrushes, and/or their parts are not accepted for recycling through the programme.
The programme does not accept:
Outer cardboard packaging can be recycled with your local council, so please don’t include this in your shipment to TerraCycle.
We encourage you to ship when your box of rubbish weighs 5kg or more to minimise the footprint of this programme and ensure you earn TerraCycle points. New Zealand Post will not accept dripping packages, so please make sure your items are dry.
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. New Zealand Post will not accept dripping items, so please make sure your items are dry.
Earn TerraCycle points by recycling with us! You can redeem your points in the form of a donation to a school or charity of your choice. Thanks to the recycling efforts of our collectors, we've raised over $45 million dollars globally for schools and charities through our recycling programmes.
Click here to learn more about our Recycling Rewards Programme
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.
Colgate® is proud of their partnership with TerraCycle and is committed to making a difference. As a company that strives to be the best truly global consumer products company, Colgate® is committed to doing business with integrity and respect for all people and for the world around us. To learn more about Colgate®, click here.