The right to healthy period products is not a privilege
Toxic chemicals have no place in period products. Join the fight!
Read more
Partners
Toxic chemicals in period products: do you want to minimize exposure?
After use, conventional period products end up in incinerators or landfills, where they further contribute to toxic emissions and releases that undermine the health of the planet.
Read more
Environmenstrual Week 2020
The objectives of Environmenstrual Week in 2020 are threefold: to advocate for an end to period poverty, to promote the conversation surrounding eco-friendly period products, and to help end the taboo around periods.
Read more
To save the world, empower women
The environmental NGO City to Sea is spreading the word about sustainable alternatives through their ‘Plastic Free Periods’ initiative, which incorporates environmental advocacy into female health education.
Read more
This International Women’s Day women break period taboos to fight plastic pollution’
For International Women’s Day (8th of March), 4 women are speaking out about the most controversial form of plastic pollution – the plastic that comes from our period products.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
BloodySuccess or BloodyShame: what plastic-free period products can be found in stores in the UK?
City to Sea launched a retailer campaign, calling on the public to be period detectives on their highstreets
Read more
WEN Environmenstrual Campaigner Natasha Piette-Basheer in an Interview with ptfperiod.info
Natasha Piette-Basheer is the campaign manager for the WEN Environmenstrual Campaign and Week of Action. She sat down with ptfperiod.info for an interview.
Read more