Period products and the planet

round the world, at any given time every single day, 800 million people are menstruating. On average, a menstruating woman will do so once a month for five days, for around 35 to 45 years of her life — that’s eight years’ worth of periods during an individual’s lifetime (). Whilst period poverty is, sadly, a very real thing in too many places around the world, people who do have access to sanitary products will reach for these vital items as soon