Right, you lot, you bleed from your fanjos roughly once a month...

[hunkermunker]

Yet somehow a mooncup is gross to some of you?

Why?

I would rather they sit and rot in landfill than on our beaches and in rivers.

I don't think shhh was picked on - she just posted that she flushed her tampons and I pointed out that she shouldn't. I thought she might not know. I didn't know, till someone told me. However it turns out either she did know and doesn't care, or (as it looks like) still hasn't bothered to read the link I posted, doesn't know what we are all talking about, and is just thrashing about rather crossly.

It's a free country.

have you read any of the thread at all, or are you just picking out random statments to reply to?

yes, tampax say they are flushable.

mcdonalds say they are healthy. but I don't believe them.

I do use carriers btw, but I try to minimise them and use other bags where I can. as I say, it is hard to do all of these things all of the time. it's your refusal to even consider doing anything different that i'm arguing with.

Thats true QE. BTW I do recycle carrier bags by using them either as bin bags OR giving them to tesco on my next shop or home delivery.

Just so you all don't think I'm totally anal I do also recycle papers,plastics,glass and clothes.

BTW what do you all do with those plastic thingys that come holding cans together..?? How do you dispose of them..?

F&Z - maybe it should be pointed out to the Tampon makers that they shouldn't advise us to flush them down the loo?

In the recycling bin with the rest of the plastic bits.

It is wrong, I say, that tampons be allowed to rot on our beaches. The only right thing to do is use a mooncup.

As that was the original point of this thread, shall we get back to it?

Yup, agreed, but do you think Tampax care, QE? And people will still go on flushing them, if they aren't told differently. I was honestly pleased to have it explained to me that I shouldn't. I know it sounds ignorant but I had simply never thought about it and would have probably gone on doing it indefinitely.

Following the logic of the argument that continuing to do something that is bad for the environemnt - everyone who uses tampons and towels should be condemned unless they agree to use a mooncup.

Agreed again QE. I am wavering on the figurative edge of a Mooncup. You lot keep hassling me, it is definitely working

Oh, too many cross posts, but I don't totally agree with your 3.43 post QE - it is simply ignorance surely, that makes people flush their sanitary products - there is no other reason for it, is there?

Whereas I don't personally drive a car but can see the reasons why some people do, and wouldn't judge them for it.

But F&Z both flushing AND disposing of tampons in a bin are ultimately bad for the environment. Flushing is only worse in the long run because of where they end up and the dangers of blackage. When they are eventually cleared off the beaches, they end up in landfill anyway don't they? Which again is a long term bad choice for the environment?

Well Im definately gonna try one when ds no4 is here. Got to be beteer and cheaper in the long run. Wonder if I can use my Boots advantage card......

landfill sites are just as bad for the environment..putting all the rubbish back into the earth..! Also the more rubbish that is created for the sites the more sites that will pop up..Fancy living next door to one..???

get a garden incinerator and burn the lot on there.

Is incineration better then?

Burning has it's own problems with the ozone though doesn't it?

No easy answer on the isue of disposing of rubbish whatever it is.

well not if you live in a smokeless zone, i was talking bog roll etc.
my gran used to burn the lot on the open fire...barf.

hi QE, im still poorly hence my re-appearance on mn.
i was just trying to divert away from the flush or bin argument, once upon a time you had to use re usuble ones and wash them.

This brings me back really to the point I was trying to make earlkier

That whatever method is used there are still drawbacks. There is no right or wrong answer and people have a choice in which method they use to dispose of (tampons in this case).

I still buy things that I really feel shouldn't have so much packaging but I still do and chuck the rubbish in the bin knowing it is going to end up on a landfill somehwere. (Actually probably a few miles from me as Bedfordshire seems to be the rubbish dump for much of the wider region, but thats another matter).

That puts me in the same bracket as shhh and everyone else who flushes tampons. Not wrong, just one choice of several options available. Granted, some are better than others but ultimatley still bad for the environment and the future of this planet.

but qe: is there a really easy alternative to those products? one as easy as wrapping and binning? that's my point really. and no, landfill isn't great, but it is better than a beach as fanjoandzooey said (excellent name btw, fanjo!)

Yes there is a better alternative!!

The mooncup of course!

I am one of the converted btw.

qe BTW you aren't on commission for them are you..moon cups r us..??!!

@ shhh

no, I mean to the products with lots of packaging you mentioned. I know all about mooncups!

and you missed a trick in your homage to them btw. I think the best thing about them is that they spell an end to those 11pm dashes to the 24 hour garage!

ah right sp, I thought you meant tampons there!

Wrt to the excess packaging, I'm not sure what the answer is - lobby the companies? refuse to buy the products? buy loose not prepackaged fruit and veg? buy from markets? customer complaint forms?

It will take a huge shift in people's thinking to alter the way the buy goods; I'm not totally sure where that starts?