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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we think of reducing our waste, we often think about touting a reusable water bottle or bringing our own bags to the grocery store. But what about menstrual products? According to Global Citizen, ...

First to the world 100% Biodegradable Plastic Applicator Tampon Announced by the Organyc(R) brand. Repairing the world by eliminating plastic tampon applicator waste is the goal of the Organyc brand's ...

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 ...

“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 ...

MEXICO CITY — 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 applicators ...