Did you know that a staggering 4.3 billion disposable menstrual products are used in the UK every year? This creates a huge amount of avoidable waste with much of it being plastic!
A ‘conventional’ menstrual pad contains around the same amount of plastic as four carrier bags. Depending on where it ends up as waste, it could have a longer life-span than the woman who uses it! What’s more, although NO period products should go down the loo, it’s estimated that every single day in the UK about 700,000 panty liners, 2.5 million tampons and 1.4 million pads are flushed down the toilet – many of which block our sewer systems and escape into our rivers and seas…
Flushed plastics make up around 8% of beach litter in the UK and that figure keeps on climbing each year. Plastic debris kills more than a million seabirds and over 100,000 marine mammals every year.
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