Have you ever heard of collective action? It's basically when a bunch of people make a change in their own lives that, collectively, ends up making a big difference.
The average female will use approximately 11,000 sanitary products in her lifetime. So what if one person switches to reusable period products, but then another woman switches, and another woman... suddenly millions of bags of garbage would be saved from being produced and sent to landfill. Single use sanitary pads and tampons may be small but they pack a nasty environmental punch. Not only are they made with chemicals from the oil and gas industry but they end up in our water systems once used.
Meghan Adams is an environmental engineer from the American midwest who wrote a paper on sanitary products. She created a survey that received over 1,200 responses all about sanitary product knowledge and use. Her results may surprise you!
In the U.S. alone Meghan's research estimates over 20 billion sanitary period items go to landfill every year. Join Meghan and Laura as we discuss our research we found and also our own experiences with using different period products over the years.
Further Reading
DeVito & Schecter Dioxins In Tampons
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: Toxic Shock Syndrome
Girls Missing School Study
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23. What's In Plastic?
22. Nu Grocery
20. Jo Kaminska Foundation
19. Plastics & Politics with Catherine McKenna
18. Restaurants & Tech
17. BPA In Our Diets
16. Zero Waste Flowers
15. Environmental Defence With Tim Gray
14. Sea of Life: Julia Barnes
13. Natural dyes: Sustain Clothing
12. What Is TerraCycle?
11. The Zero Footprint Baby
10. Outgoing Compost
9. Recycling With Quinte Waste Solutions
8. Closed-Loop Rain Gear: Faire Child
7. Cooking: Waste Less With MmmChef
6. Removing Clothing From Landfill
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