7 Ways to Stop Using So Much Plastic

3. No plastic toothbrushes

Bamboo toothbrush
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Over 8 million pieces of plastic toothbrushes are dumped into our oceans each year. This pollution causes the deaths of 100,000 marine mammals and a million sea birds. One good alternative to plastic toothbrushes are toothbrushes that are made out of bamboo. There are other toothbrushes that are made of recyclable plastic.