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.
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Despite everything she’s been through, Wasser is not letting her past negative experiences hold her back.
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Consumers are beginning to demand that products cater to their needs, to the benefit of both people and planet.
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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.
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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.
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Single-use menstrual products, baby nappies and wet wipes can cause serious health and environmental problems during their production use and disposal.
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HEJSupport, Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), Environmenstrual Coalition are holding a webinar on plastic and toxic free period.Meet leading experts and campaigners on that topic in our webinar and join the conversation.
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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.
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New research from the Journal of Women’s Health exploring the relationship between the use of feminine hygiene products and exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has found that vaginal douches and feminine powders significantly increase the concentration of these chemicals in women’s bodies.
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Adapted from ‘How Tampons and Pads Became so Unsustainable’ by Alejandra Borunda for National Geographic. Publication available at: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/09/how-tampons-pads-became-unsustainable-story-of-plastic/
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