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.
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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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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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City to Sea launched a retailer campaign, calling on the public to be period detectives on their highstreets
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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.
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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.
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City to Sea launched a new awareness raising film targeting at people who are into watersports, outdoor adventures, female empowerment and other ocean activities.
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Adapted from ‘Tell Playtex and Stayfree to Detox the Box!” from Women’s Voices for the Earth. Original article available at: https://www.womensvoices.org/2019/08/23/tell-playtex-and-stayfree-to-detox-the-box/
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Women`s Voices for the Earth compiled a timeline of chemcal testing, that shows the most recent studies that have been conducted and published as of March 2019.
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