Daily oral hygiene creates vast amounts of polluting waste. But there are also good brushes – with which up to 97 percent of the plastic can be saved. A comparison of disposable brushes made of bamboo, bioplastics and an electrical device.
Marc Winkelman
Brush your teeth twice a day and change your brush every three months – there is hardly any advice on personal hygiene that is so well known and so widely shared. Rightly so. Oral cavities are a paradise for bacteria, and those who scrub thoroughly in the morning and evening, not too hard of course, are less likely to be tormented by caries and periodontitis.