Did You Know?

[Granny Mae]

Half the population of the planet has periods.

In the UK alone we buy more than three billion disposable sanitary product items every year; in 2001 we spent £370 million on them.

It all adds up to a massive number of items every year, which end up incinerated or in landfills, or reappearing in our seas and rivers.

Did You Know?

•The average woman uses nearly 17,000 disposable pads and tampons, the equivalent of 600 pounds of paper and cotton throughout her lifetime menstrual cycle.

•It takes more than six months for a tampon to biodegrade, while a plastic sanitary towel lasts indefinitely.

•An est. 8 billion bleached pads and tampons end up in UK sewage systems each year.

•Seventy per cent of blockages in the sewage system are caused by sanitary waste.