🔴 No-one wants to spot used period plastic waste* when strolling along or cleaning their local beach. But sadly it’s an all too common sight, with period products making the top 10 lists of plastic waste found on beach, river and street cleans.
🩸 Period pads can contain up to a whopping 90% plastic. With the average menstruating person using over 11,000 disposable pads and tampons over a lifetime, that’s a LOT of single-use plastic waste.
You could save money *and* reduce plastic waste by making your own period pads. Penzance’s Mirva Craftspace workshop this weekend (Saturday afternoon) will teach you how to do exactly that.
The workshop is from £12 per person and suitable for beginners. All materials will be provided, but, ideally, you’ll bring along your own sewing machine.
Get in touch with their Causeway Head shop to book, or get your ticket on EventBrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/csp-cloth-sanitary-pads-making-saturday-at-mirva-craftspace-tickets-163183699839
(Can’t make the workshop? There are more workshop dates coming up, and there’s some excellent tutorials on YouTube.)
If you’re unable to give up single-use plastic protection, please remember to never flush your period products (even if the label says ‘flushable’) and bin them instead. Check out
http://www.wen.org.uk/ for more plastic free options too.
*While there should be no taboo about periods, we'd rather not have period waste polluting our planet 😉