A sustainable PERIOD!!!
- some powerful period facts- disclaimer: I tried my best to use gender neutral pronouns though out this post. If I failed to correct some of my mistakes, I am so sorry, please message me so I can change them. I realize that not all women have periods and not all people that have periods are women 1. An individual goes through approximately 11,000 disposable pads/tampons in a lifetime. 2. To produce one little bud of cotton the process requires six pints of water. 3. Tampons, pads and panty lines along with their packaging generate more than 200,000 tons of waste per year. 4. 456 periods over 38 years = 6.25 years or 2,280 days of your life spent bleeding 5. Assuming the prices of these items stay fixed (not realistic) a. tampons: if one tampons is used every 6 hours and 4 tampons are used every day = 20 tampons for a 5-day cycle, this totals ...