Think about the waste each female produces on a yearly basis. Let's say you get your period when you're12 and experience menopause by the time you're 50...that is 38 fertile years, 456 cycles, (let's say on average a period lasts five days and the pads are changed three times a day) and 6840 pads that you are indirectly sending to the landfill each year!
Multiply this by the number of fertile women in the world and that is a lot of pads! To give you an idea according to the 2010 census, there were 157 million women in the United States alone (http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/cb12-ff05.html).
So if you have
ever thought about ways of reducing your environmental impact or live by the “reduce,
reuse, recycle” mantra you may find the topic of reusable homemade pads interesting.
Seamstress, Autumn Starnes at stuffyourfluff.etsy.com creates "handmade cloth diapers and other reusable baby and mamma products".
So I ordered some of her homemade pads and I had them sent to my work. So far I have not had to answer any, "so what's in the package?" questions, for which I am grateful because I already feel like a leper in office clothes.
