Once you’ve cleaned your chompers, one local Girl Scout troop wants you to think twice before tossing out your worn-out toothbrush or used up flosser and recycle them instead. Reporter Heather Clisby has more …
Headed straight for the landfill, approximately 1 billion plastic toothbrushes are thrown away every year in the United States, creating 50 million pounds of waste annually. Yucca Valley Girl Scout Troop 947 is asking residents to help them tackle that problem.
The girls have created collection bins to take your spent toothbrushes, disposable flossers, dental floss containers, toothbrush heads, mouthwash containers and toothpaste tubes so they may be recycled into shoes, park benches, new toothbrushes, and clothes.
Throughout May, oral care recycling bins will be in several spots across the Morongo Basin, including the lobby right here at Z107.7FM in Joshua Tree (6448 Hallee Road). Additional bin locations include the Yucca Valley Town Hall lobby (57090 Twentynine Palms Highway) and the Green Roadrunner, also in Yucca Valley (57533 29 Palms Hwy #2).
Troop 947 will collect the items and ship them to Oral B which facilitates the program. Currently in fifth grade, the scouts are working toward earning a Bronze Award by making a difference in their community.
