{"id":18524,"date":"2015-03-27T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=18524"},"modified":"2015-03-27T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T18:31:10","slug":"the-waste-biz-how-to-get-that-last-bit-of-toothpaste-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-waste-biz-how-to-get-that-last-bit-of-toothpaste-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Waste Biz: How To Get That Last Bit Of Toothpaste Out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ever struggle with a bottle, tube, or other container to get the last bit of product out? Of course you have… and, according to a 2009 article from Consumer Reports<\/em><\/a>, we may be throwing away 15% of these products because we can’t get to those last bits.<\/p>\n

Liquiglide is a coating developed by an MIT professor and one of his graduate students that might be able to address this kind of waste<\/a>. Designed to make “the inside of the bottle permanently wet and slippery,” this technology could make such waste a thing of the past. Take a look at how a bottle coated with Liquiglide handles mustard:<\/p>\n