The average woman throws to Mother Earth x about 15.000 pads or tampons during her lifetime - and they take over 400 years to decompose. Reusable pads are a big change, they last at least 5 years and so help us to reduce our waste production...
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Single-use disposable sanitary pads are made with toxic materials for our immune system, mostly plastic and bleached cellulose made from wood pulp cotton. In addition, fragrance and antibacterial agents can be included...
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The cost of disposable sanitary pads for a woman during her fertile life (about 38 years) is approximately 5000 euros, at this cost we should add the time and the cost to go to buy the pads every single month. Washable “Ama Tu Luna” pads...
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The average woman throws to Mother Earth about 15.000 pads or tampons during her lifetime - and they take over 400 years to decompose.
Reusable pads are a big change, they last at least 5 years, they are eco-friendly.
Women from poor areas don't have enough money to buy sanitary pads every month so they use unwashed cloths, which are thrown away after one single use, creating pollution and spreading diseases, through flies and other insects.
Sanitary pads contain plastic which generates dioxin, that contaminates waterways.
Menstrual blood is sacred! Blood is rich of nutrients, we can donate it to the earth as a fertilizer for the soil, trees and plants.
Single-use disposable sanitary pads are made with toxic materials for our immune system, mostly plastic and bleached cellulose made from wood pulp cotton.
In addition, fragrance and antibacterial agents can be included.
In contact with our sexual organs, these materials can cause heavier menstrual flow, more cramps, infections, skin rashes and more serious troubles.
Plastic does not allow air to circulate freely then the skin cannot breathe and this promotes the proliferation of bacteria, which are responsible of bad odour and a source of infections.
Recent studies show the presence of glyphosate (a well-known carcinogenic substance) in menstrual tampons and sanitary pads.
The plastics, synthetic fibres, wool pulp, chlorine, synthetic chemicals, artificial fragrances and pesticides, and herbicide ridden cotton used in disposable menstrual products can lead to allergic reactions, hormone disruption, reproductive disorders, and even cancer.
The cost of disposable sanitary pads for a woman during her fertile life (about 38 years) is approximately 5000 euros, at this cost we should add the time and the cost to go to buy the pads every single month.
In Kenya, the average cost of a package of sanitary pads is 75KSH -- approximately $1 CAD. The average daily income for unskilled labourers is around $1.50 CAD: purchasing sanitary supplies each month is not financially possible for thousands of women.
Washable “Ama Tu Luna” pads can last 5 years, so we can save a lot of money and time!
In the slums in Buenos Aires, a family can buy just one pack of disposable pads per month because they are very expensive.
The pack is shared between 3 or 4 sisters; each woman must keep the same pad for a very long time, because there are not enough pads for everybody. This causes skin rushes, infections and other diseases.
In Kenya high cost of disposable pads makes them inaccessible to the majority of women and girls. Approximately 65% of girls in Kenya cannot afford any brand of sanitary pads on a monthly basis. Young students engage in prostitution in exchange of disposable pads. They get pregnant and then they abandon their babies in the fields.
In India many women give up school because they can't buy sanitary pads.
Many similar situations take place all over the world.