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 ...

Your time of the month can be fraught with discomfort and the environmental impact of your tampon is likely to be the furthest thing from your mind. However, there are alternatives. British organic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beyond their plastic applicators, tampons can include plastic in their wrappers, strings and rayon mixed in with the cotton.

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. After however many months spent indoors with three roommates and one 13-gallon trash can, my big ...

When a U.K. startup began selling a subscription service to period products in 2015–the menstrual version of the Dollar Shave Club–they offered both disposable and reusable products. The reusable ...

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 ...

Mexico City — Authorities in the Mexican capital have angered women's rights groups by banning the sale of tampons with plastic applicators. The move has sparked a shortage of the products in retail ...

Hands up who’s ever found themselves stuck behind a desk daydreaming of turning their wellness passion into a career? Perhaps, you yearn to retrain as a PT or yoga instructor? Or, launch your own ...