I just found this item while fact searching:
Choosing toothbrushes with recycled handles is one option to reduce this impact. These toothbrushes are made from at least 25% recycled yogurt cups. The packaging is a wood based material from a renewable forest. They even come with a prepaid mailer so you can send them to be recycled by a company that makes park benches.
Preserve toothbrushes are in the running to be the official mascot of PlasticLess 
Another option is to get reusable handles that come with replacement heads.
The packaging of individual toothbrushes is also a tremendous waste of plastic. We know that we are going to brush our teeth for as long as we have them, buying toothbrushes in multipacks may reduce the amount of packaging.
April 25th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
[...] options last year, but I haven’t seen any of them in local stores. If the my Planet and the Preserve were side by side on the supermarket shelf, I would have a hard time [...]
April 27th, 2009 at 1:41 am
[...] other options last year, but I haven’t seen any of them in local stores. If the my Planet and the Preserve were side by side on the supermarket shelf, I would have a hard time [...]
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:47 am
Thanks for a great post. Toothbrushes are one of those everyday items we don’t think about that much, but every little bit we can keep out of the landfill helps and I love these ideas!