Menstrual pads are hard to talk about, and also an eco disaster on our beaches - but we need to change our waysThis column nearly didn't happen. When a manufacturer of eco friendly menstrual pads bounded up to me and asked me brightly in public: "Are you a flusher or a binner?" I stared at her in total horror. Menstrual products and their disposal represent one of the last great consumer taboos - odd in a society which cheerfully discusses the vajazzle. It's a taboo that powers a huge environmental issue. In their 2016 beach clean-up, the Marine Conservation Society found 20 tampons and sanitary items per 100 metres of shoreline.Why not embrace the rise of the reusables? Continue reading...
The eco guide to sanitary products
29. října 2017 7:47
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Zdroj: The Guardian
