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Week 6 Recap: Plastic-Free Periods

Another pain-free challenge in the books, and I’m starting to feel like a broken record. This wasn’t supposed to be easy. Am I not picking hard enough challenges? In a lot of cases, I am enhancing a habit I already have, or paying closer attention to it in an effort to be more deliberate. ButContinue reading “Week 6 Recap: Plastic-Free Periods”

Week 6

In 2018 alone, people in the U.S. bought 5.8 billion tampons. Over the course of a lifetime, a woman will use between 5 and 15 thousand pads and tampons, the vast majority of which will wind up in landfills. Tampons flushed down the toilet can end up in the ocean when sewer systems fail. “We’reContinue reading “Week 6”