The Changing Nature of the Menstrual Product Industry in India
Consumers are beginning to demand that products cater to their needs, to the benefit of both people and planet.
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If we don’t set a dream out, we don’t know where we’re headed
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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Webinar Plastic- and Toxic-free Menstruation Products
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 & WET WIPES: Investigating the impact of these single-use items across Europe
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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Webinar Plastic- and Toxic-free Periods, 2nd of December 2019
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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Ensuring menstrual products are safe, affordable and accessible
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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VOCs and Feminine Hygiene Products: What You Should Know
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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Imagine a future in which sustainable menstruation is a reality
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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Environ-menstrual Advocates
Kate Metcalf, the co-director of Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), identifies growing public awareness of the massive plastic pollution problem as a contributing factor to the increasing openness with which many women are willing to discuss menstruation.
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A short history of menstrual products and materials used
How materials for menstural products changed over the past decades and how they became unsustainable. Adapted from ‘How Tampons and Pads Became so Unsustainable’ by Alejandra Borunda for National Geographic.
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