Earth Month & Menstruation

April is Earth Month, so it’s the perfect time to consider the environmental impact of our daily habits, including our Period care routines! The Reality of Disposable Period Products The reality is that period products are a necessity, but disposable products are detrimental to the environment. The average person uses 11,000 pads and/or tampons in a lifetime. This means billions of disposable pads and tampons end up in our landfills, sewer systems, and waterways every year. In fact, Stanford Magazine reports that approximately 12 billion pads and 7 billion tampons are discarded each year in just the US. Not to mention each disposable product takes up to 800 years to degrade. That’s a long time and a lot of waste. The environmental burden doesn’t start with the large amounts of plastic waste created by pads and tampons, it begins with the production. Stud ies report that the average one year...

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