It’s hard to gross out Cindy Zipf. Three decades of cleaning up beaches have inured her to the horrors of, say, a washed-up diaper. But there’s one kind of trash that Zipf, executive director of the ...

Your time of the month can be fraught with discomfort and the environmental impact of your tampon is likely to be the furthest thing from your mind. However, there are alternatives. British organic ...

Ella Daish, the founder of the #EndPeriodPlastic campaign, asked people to send her any plastic tampon applicators they found polluting their local environment, beach, or waterway. She ended up with ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. After however many months spent indoors with three roommates and one 13-gallon trash can, my big ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - In Mexico City, one of the world's biggest cities, a product that many women relied on as a monthly necessity is gradually disappearing from the shelves: tampons with plastic ...

“The average woman will have a tampon inside her for a collective 7.5 years.” Celia Pool, Co-Founder of Dame. 2015 was hailed as the year of the period: a woman ran the London Marathon whilst ...

Superdrug just made it easier to have a plastic-free period by removing plastic tampon applicators from its own-brand products. The high street beauty retailer follows in the footsteps of Sainsbury's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beyond their plastic applicators, tampons can include plastic in their wrappers, strings and rayon mixed in with the cotton.

When a U.K. startup began selling a subscription service to period products in 2015–the menstrual version of the Dollar Shave Club–they offered both disposable and reusable products. The reusable ...

Plastic tampon applicators are terrible for the environment. Not only do they flood our oceans but animals even mistake them for food and eat them, blocking their digestive tracts and contaminating ...