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 ...

Ella Daish to hand Procter & Gamble giant Tampax applicator, made from 1,200 discarded contributions A British environmental activist is stepping up her campaign against single-use plastics in period ...

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.

Many of the single-use plastic items we use on a day-to-day basis have come under scrutiny recently — and rightly so. These products end up in our forests and oceans and are even ingested by animals, ...

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 ...

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 ...