We women spend an average 6.5 years of our lives bleeding. Most women in the world have no access to the luxury of disposable sanitary towels and tampons (sanpro) but the woman in the 'developed' world uses about 10,000 such items during her life.

Taboos about menstruation have led to expensive, wasteful, polluting sanitary products which bring with them unnecessary health and environmental problems.

Tampons and towels are NOT sterile, despite their glowing white appearance

Toxic Shock Syndrome, a rare but potentially fatal illness which particularly affects younger women, is linked to tampons

It takes a tampon six months to biodegrade, a plastic sanitary towel liner lasts indefinitely

Millions of used tampons and sanitary towels find their way out to sea with the raw sewage - becoming fertile breeding grounds for bacteria such as Hepatitis A and polio

The plastic components litter our beaches, causing harm to coastal and aquatic life

An estimated 74% of tampon users flush rather than use a bin - around 25% of sanitary towel users flush

75% of blocked drains are caused by flushing sanitary protection

Dioxins released during chlorine bleaching and plastics manufacture have been shown to cause cancer, miscarriages and damage to the immune system

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