Lobby Procter and Gamble to stop using plastic applicators

[RCallway]

Please join me in lobbying Procter and Gamble to stop using unnecessary plastic applicators. Write to:

Bob McDonald - CEO: [email protected]
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I sent them the following message which you can amend / use if you like:

Dear Bob

I bought Tampax Compak for the first time in a very long time at a shop because I had no alternative options. I was extremely shocked and disappointed to find a plastic, unrecycled, non-degradable applicator. Surely P&C have the skills and global conscience to use a degradable and recycled cardboard applicator - if it has to use one at all?! Using petroleum-based plastic is an extremely backward step - both an anti-green and anti-social choice. I understand some women feel the need to use applicators but please, please, please look at alternative options or save money and the environment and drop the applicator altogether.

Best wishes

I prefer the plastic ones. Cardboard ones hurt.

Don't buy them if you don't like them.

Hate the card ones.

There are many questionable areas of P&G. Plastic applicators are not one of them.

Bob - can I think we deserve some free samples for sticking up for you on AIBU.

callway - have you actually had any response?

Cardboard ones snag and hurt.
Sorry op but Yabu.

I much prefer the plastic ones.

YABU You would use non applicator ones or even those god awful mooncups if you really cared about all this environment bollox

I think we'd be better off having a campaign to make sanitary products free. Around half the population will be using them regularly at some point.

Nope plastic far better cardboard applicators pinch and bend and get ruined in your handbag

I much preferred plastic ones when I used them - cardboard always used to stick so I couldn't push the small tube in the big one. But then I discovered the mooncup and will never go back to tampons!

This is the biggest waste of your time you could possibly come up with

I was wondering when the mooncupers would pop in.

Plastic every time. I always keep a couple in my bag in case I get caught out. Cardboard ones get squashed but the plastic ones don't. Never had pinching from either type.

Why not just use Lilletts? No applicator at all, just a rounded end and you shove it in /up with your finger?

YABU.

If you're that bothered about recycling don't use tampons at all. Various reuseable alternatives

Cardboard applicators are horrid. I nearly gave up on tampons until the Tampax Pearl came along.

I don't get your point. They are not going to recycle the contents of a sanitary bin anyway. As another poster said, it is clinical waste as it has blood on it.

I deal with PR in a company that sometimes receives this type of complaint. it always gives us a good laugh. We also have a point system that's awarded by level of surprise, shock, horror etc

Why not get a mooncup? It's much better for the environment.

No!

Me and My Morally Repugnant Vagina LIKE the plastic applicators.

Cardboard applicators?! I've never heard of/seen them! They sound snaggy and painful!
Mind you I don't use tampons, they scare me

Its a no from me as well. You seem to be outnumbered op.

It's a no from me, much better than cardboard applicators

I can't be arsed to get upset about nonsense like this, don't people have other things to worry about?

PMSL at morally repugnant vagina

Sunnywithshowers

I know these threads, any minute now my vagina will once again be accused of personally killing a polar bear.

A no from me too. It's not top of my list of things to worry about.