An eco-friendly brush that calculates the plastic you have saved from the trash - Yanko Design

Toothbrushes are infamously hard to recycle; their plastic bodies paired with the silicone over molds make the materials a claiming to carve up, resulting in them spending the rest of their lives on landfill sights… not smashing for a device that we only use for iv minutes a day! Whilst regularly replacing our toothbrush is necessary, the handle tin withstand a much longer lifespan than the heads.

This beautiful design is ii°C, a toothbrush that reduces the overall plastic waste by a staggering 87%! This has been achieved through the implementation of a high-quality reusable body that accommodates the disposable brush heads. Requiring just the heads to exist replaced every six months. Its intriguing design doesn't end at sustainability, packed into the magnetic base is a technology that quietly tracks your brushing stats, whilst simultaneously keeping track of the historic period of the brush head! This data is communicated to the user through the mobile app, allowing for unobtrusive tracking of the device!

Designer: Andrea Mangone

"When not in use the toothbrush snaps magnetically to a smart base of operations for a minimum footprint on the bathroom counter. The smart base is able to track brushing time and frequency, likewise as estimating when the brush heads should be replaced for an optimal brushing effectiveness. Moreover the system is able to provide an boosted estimate of how much plastic is being saved from trash," Mangone explains to YD.