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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Erratum: Imparting Knowledge to Others: A Qualitative Study Exploring How Ethiopian Women Prefer to Receive Cervical Cancer Education The abstract by Clifton et al entitled “Novel, Plastic-Free ...

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 ...