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 ...

Waves of Change is a CBC series exploring the single-use plastic we're discarding, and why we need to clean up our act. You can be part of the community discussion by joining our Facebook group. From ...

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 ...

Superdrug has removed all plastic from its own-brand tampons and launched a new range of organic menstrual products. It is the first health and beauty retailer to make the move in the UK, following in ...

Sainsbury's has removed single-use plastic applicators from all of its own-brand tampon lines, as it strives to cut its packaging use and remove non-recyclable plastics from shelves. The phase-out, ...

During her annual cleanups along the shores of Lake Ontario, Rochelle Byrne has come across hundreds of plastic tampon applicators. "When I started finding those on beaches, I was a little bit ...

Environmental advocates would like to see plastic tampon applicators added to the list of items that could be banned in Canada by 2021. Earlier this week, the prime minister announced the Liberal ...

Feminine hygiene brand Lil-Lets is to cease production of all single-use plastic applicator tampons from November 2021, as it launches a reusable applicator. The brand claims the move will save an ...

Sainsbury’s has stopped producing the products following Ella Daish’s environmental campaign (Picture: ClareTalks/Ella Daish/Bloomberg) Sainsbury’s has stopped producing and selling own-brand plastic ...