Up until recently, even ardent feminists have been reluctant to address menstrual equality, choosing instead to focus on issues such as workplace equality and childcare. This hesitation is understandable considering the discrimination women often face while on their period in all parts of the world.
Most of female sanitary products contain up to 90% plastic and toxic chemicals. The average woman will use 12,000 to 16,000 disposable feminine hygiene products in her lifetime and it can take up to 100 years or more for something like a plastic pad or applicator to break down.
Alexandra Gorman Scranton is the Director of Science and Research for Women’s Voices for the Earth. Her role is looking at the science, combing through the medical literature, and looking at products as well – looking for ingredients of concern and where we’re being exposed to them, and then looking for what we know about those ingredients. She sat down with ptfperiod.info for an interview.
Adapted from ‘The Shocking Truth About Plant-Based Plastic Applicators’ from natracare. Article available at: https://www.natracare.com/blog/shocking-truth-plant-based-plastic-applicators/ As awareness of the many
City to Sea launched the new schools program Rethink Periods. The program covers some basic biology around periods, products, environmental impacts, period poverty, taboos, myths and celebrations.
Despite everything she’s been through, Wasser is not letting her past negative experiences hold her back.
Adapted from ‘Be Good A**Holes’ from My Green Pod. Article available at: https://www.mygreenpod.com/articles/be-good-aholes/ The UK’s Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has
The Guardian features some of our partners, in an article by Anna Turns. Publication available at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/02/the-women-taking-the-plastic-out-of-periods?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Up until recently, even ardent feminists have been reluctant to address menstrual equality, choosing instead to focus on issues such as workplace equality and childcare. This hesitation is understandable considering the discrimination women often face while on their period in all parts of the world.
HEJSupport together with Women`s Voices for the Earth and Women Environmental Network hosted a webinar on plastic- and toxic-free menstruation products. You can find the presentations here.
In an interview with Hayley Morton, a HEJSupport intern, Dr. Ann Blake, founder of Environmental & Public Health Consulting, shared her vision of what the future of sustainable menstruation should look like.