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Save the Planet, Ditch the Tampon

MENSTRUATE SMARTER

Women may use as many as 14,000 tampons in a lifetime. That’s a lot of waste. There’s a smarter alternative: cups.

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For all the ways to save the environment that are proposed, there’s one that’s surprisingly cost efficient, and easier than taking caps off water bottles or planting trees: the menstrual cup.

The cousin of tampons has been around for 80 years but rarely used by the world’s women.

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