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

Why does anyone need an applicator? Lillets here

I like an applicator due to enjoying dripping blood off my fingers as much as I enjoy blowing my nose directly onto my hand.

Ie ...not a lot.

I prefer an applicator so I don't have to stick my hand up my fanjo.

I much prefer the plastic ones too, sorry OP.

As to why not use lillets, never got used to positioning it properly without an applicator. Quite happy with the applicators thanks.

YABU I could only use towels until I tried tampax pearl, cardboard applicators get stuck and collapse inside me so its impossible to push them into place without wasting half a pack.
Non applicator tampons are no use to me as I can't get them in high enough I've even tried lying on the bed legs akimbo but I can feel the tampon as soon as I get up.
I would be interested in a reuseable washable plastic aplicator that could be used with non applicator tampons as the Pearl tampons are very expensive

I only use non applicator tampons, more discrete to carry to the ladies at work, cheaper and better for the environment.

Why does anyone need an applicator?

My fingers aren't especially long and they don't push the tampon in far enough. So applicator it is.

I don't care a jot

Ooh, Yes poo! Since having the DC my vagina is a bit of an odd shape so I've had to stop using my favourite li-lets tampons. Tampax Pearl is now my tampon of choice, and i never thought i'd say that!

(same odd shape means a mooncup is out of the question too)

better for the environment

I will give up plastic applicators when not one paint ball is left in play on the planet. Ditto trampolines. And all grown boyz toys. And playstations. In fact all and any non femsanpro product that is about fun rather than comfort which nobody plonks piety points on just cos they use a differnet kind.

Oh And I don't drive. And I haven't flown home in three years (cos I can't cope with the new "renew your passport in France, even though you don't live there" voicemail nightmare known as Dante's Latest Circle of Hell Going Nowhere Fast With Much Frustration. But that's not thenpoint jet fuel is jet fuel). I heat my home solely with wood.

So take that Pious Pussies United !

Agree that plastic ones pinch.

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

I must be doing it wrong I find the plastic applicators really painful, and even with the tampon in, I could still feel it and have to take it out. I stopped using tampons for months then I discovered that they still sold cardboard applicators and my vadge is happy again :)

I like your post carpevinum

I like lillets personally, but would prefer plastic applicators to cardboard ones. And if you really cared about the environment surely you would use washable pads or a mooncup.

This is very low down on my list of environmental things to care about. I only have once child and don't have a dishwasher so that's my offset.m

I switched to a mooncup, far more environmentally friendly...

I thought it was just me who got all middle-class hand wringy about the plastic ones.

I just dont use them for my own, wooly, leftie, birkinstock wearing reasons.

Also, they pinch like a motherfucker.

Yes, thank you Uterus and Venus they really pinch don't they? Painful.

Far more environmentally friendly...

Right That's It.

Fluffy Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttssssssss! Din Dins!!

I was wondering when the mooncupers would pop in.

I hate cardboard applicators, they're horrid to use, they always bend or get squashed or disintegrate if I'm particularly heavy. Plastic or none for me, depending on my mood. But I usually use a mooncup anyway

I don't fancy the mooncup at all. The thought of faffing with it in public loos.

Umm no thanks I find cardboard applicators incredibly painful to use and currently can only use Tampax Pearl without suffering eye watering pain and not being able to insert them properly.

Why don't you do those of us who suffer like this a favour and lobby for something else.......

Another one here who has only been able to use tampons since plastic applicators became available.

Please dont get rid of them. Due to gynae issues the mooncup is no longer an option.

You don't need to faff with it in public loos Sparkling - I empty mine in the morning and in the evening.

I fear more emptying may be required in my case Queen.