The eco guide to sanitary products
by Lucy Siegle from on (#36CPX)
Menstrual pads are hard to talk about, and also an eco disaster on our beaches - but we need to change our ways
This 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?
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