See how menstruators are at risk of cancer, infertility, allergy because of the disposable sanitary napkins or tampons. Every year we discard 100 billion biotoxic plastic waste which pollutes our soil,water and air.

1. How toxic is your Pad & Tampon ?
Everyone needs to know this NOW !!! The problems and the solutions by JIL doc

2. Problems arising from disposable pads/tampons
• Our health- Cancer, Infertility, Allergy, Rashes
• Sanitary workers health- diseases like HIV, Hepatitis, skin problems
• Environment- Bio-toxic plastic waste: Soil-air-water pollution
• Period poverty- Due to lack of access/finance

3. Risks to menstruators’ health

6. • Skin in the vaginal area is
extremely thin and permeable.
• Means anything that can be
leached out of a sanitary pad
or tampon travels directly to
the bloodstream.

7. Menstruators are exposed to these chemicals for
7.5 to 10 years
(5 days per month for 35 years)

8. Also tampons

10. Breast
Cancer
• > 2 million new cases and > 0.6 million deaths every year
• leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide
Cervical
Cancer
• second most common cancer in women in Asia and Africa
• > 0.5 million new cases every year

11. Endometrioses
• Painful periods
• Painful sex
• Irregular bleeding
• Abdominal pain
• Infertility
1 in 10 women in world
have endometrioses
50% may get infertility
presence of tissue resembling the lining of the uterus; outside the uterus

13. Sweat in the genitals needs to evaporate

15. The Sanitary Workers
• Blood borne infections
• Infectious diseases
• HIV
• Hepatitis
• Skin infections

16. The Stray
Animals

17. Disposal of the pad/ tampon

18. The Environment
• 1 menstruator uses around 100 pads/tampons per year
• If even half the menstruators use pads/tampons i.e. 1 billion population
• Yearly biotoxic plastic waste produced in the world= 100 billion pads/tampons

19. Bury/ burn/ throw away???
• It’ll take at least 500 to 800 years for each pad and tampon to
decompose
• Become tiny plastic particles and enter the food chain…..
   enters our body   
• When incinerated — a common practice in some nations — these
products release toxic fumes
• Meanwhile in some nations- water bodies polluted too with
menstrual waste

20. Price of periods ??

21. • 1 menstruator= 100 pads/tampons per year
• 1 menstruator= 100$ per year on average
• 1 menstruator spends in her lifetime on pads/tampons
= 3000 – 5000 USD or 2500 -4000 Euro or >1 lakh INR
(Extreme poverty = < $1.9 per day
= 750 million people in the world)

22. Period Poverty

23. • Globally, 2.3 billion people live
without basic sanitation services
(UNICEF).
• It makes it harder for
menstruators to manage periods
safely and with dignity.

24. The solution -
Reusable sustainable menstrual products

27. Lets dream for-
Happy, Healthy and Sustainable Periods for all !!!

28. Please watch JIL doc youtube channel for videos on-
• What are cloth pads and menstrual cups
• Making pad at home for free
• How to use menstrual cup
• Use of menstrual cup in teenagers
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30. Sources of information used-
• https://womensvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Chem-
Fatale-Report.pdf
• https://www.progressivehealth.com/feminine-hygiene-products-
cause-pms-pain.htm
• http://naturallysavvy.com/care/why-are-tampons-classified-as-
medical-devices
• http://naturallysavvy.com/care/conventional-feminine-hygiene-
products-a-womens-issue-with-toxic-implications
• http://iresolve.eu/index.php/home/product-design/item/92-infinicel-
what-is-made-of

31. • https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-
and-statistics/global-cancer-facts-and-figures/global-cancer-facts-and-
figures-4th-edition.pdf
• https://endometriosisworld.weebly.com/world-statistics.html
• https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/ending-period-poverty-in-kibera-
through-reusable-menstrual-pads/ar-AALCAMJ
• https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-
gender-age.php
• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/plastic-free-tampons-
pads_n_5c0e88a6e4b06484c9fce988
• https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/period-poverty-everything-you-
need-to-know/