How to have a plastic-free period

Menstrual hygiene affects billions of people each month, with most relying on single-use plastic products like pads and tampons. However, have we considered what happens to plastic menstrual products when we dispose of them? The average person who menstruates uses around 11,000 menstrual products  during their lifetime. That’s enough to almost fill a London city bus! However, the majority of these menstrual products are made of plastic , from the product itself to the packaging it comes in....