Sanitary Products

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by Charlotte Watt2 views·Updated May 6, 2022
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  1. for my project. I am researching sanitary products.
  2. These are a need for staying healthy and clean.
  3. However, they have a huge impact on the environment.
  4. Every single woman goes through an average of
  5. 16,000 pads or tampons in her lifetime.
  6. And all of these products eventually end up in
  7. the ocean because they were made to be single.
  8. Use
  9. Approximately 4.6 million sanitary products end up in
  10. the ocean each day just from the UK.
  11. And it takes 500 years for a sanitary pad to decompose,
  12. not only polluting the ocean and land,
  13. there is a high chance we could be ingesting this plastic.
  14. While these products are decomposing,
  15. they break down into microplastics which are the most deadly form of plastic.
  16. See life ingest these microplastics and we ingest the sea life.
  17. The microplastics can get into our water
  18. supply leading to illness and possibly death.
  19. The company I am looking at is tampax, a transnational corporation.
  20. They produced mainly tampons with applicators.
  21. This company makes tampons with both cardboard and plastic applicators.
  22. But there are always other ways you can help
  23. you can use sustainable and reusable products such as bamboo pants or cups.
  24. Thanks for watching. Bye!