Tampons aren't for toilets: biodegradable bag hopes to fight the flushers

Around 9.3 million women use tampons in the UK, but we don't often speak about how we dispose of them

"Everyone knows that horror story of wrapping a tampon up in toilet roll and trying to smuggle it out your friend's bathroom," says Martha Silcott, inventor of Fab Little Bag, a biodegradable bag designed to make it easier for women to bin their tampons.

Silcott, a former City worker turned entrepreneur, surveyed hundreds of women and girls before launching her product on something we don't usually talk about: the monthly, often messy matter of getting rid of used tampons. She found 40% chose to bin, 60% were flushers.