Should women be encouraged to skip their period in order to reduce waste caused by pads & tampons?

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  • I’m not sure if this is a joke or not — because there are ways to skip periods with new drugs. But I really feel they just can’t possibly know if this is safe for women years down the road in terms of cancers and other things that could develop from this.

    Women might be able to use less pads and tampons or use unbleached ones from companies like Seventh Generation that have less impact on the environment.

    I would imagine a worse impact is diapers actually! If more people used cloth diapers, at least some of the time, that would be a huge impact. I also think people tend to use too many diapers. I have seen people take diapers off their babies that weren’t even soiled in any way. If the diapers resealed easier, this woudl be possible. But of course the diaper companies wouldn’t want THAT. Chlorine-free diapers are also available and that could help lessen the impact on the enviroment as well.
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  • why? it’s painful to skip periods and they are painful enough. beacause when you finally have one again it’s worse than usual. though I can see the environmental advantage.

  • I understand where this is coming from but skipping periods is bad for your bones. Also there are better ways to reduce waste such as recycling more or using cloth diapers on babies there are also products for your period that reduce waste.

    http://www.softcup.com/product/softcup_d…

  • Are you serious? There are far more important things the effect our environment. SKIPPING YOUR PERIOD IS DANGEROUS.

    Why should we endanger our health?

  • I am not sure if it makes much sense from a waste reduction point of view. But skipping periods would reduce the rate of breast cancer. There is a direct relationship between the number of periods a woman has and her chances of having breast cancer.

    Going back to cloth diapers would make a much bigger dent in the solid waste problem. Disposable diapers are one of the single largest items filling our solid waste disposal sites nation wide. Cloth diapers are a huge pain in the butt though, no pun intended ;).

    A relatively painless way of making a very large contribution to the environment is to drive a very high mileage car. I drive a Prius and I get nearly 50 mpg. My old car got about 20 mpg. I was surprised to learn that change alone has enabled me to reduce my carbon dioxide emissions by about 37 tons! That is 74 thousand pounds! I found that out when I answered one of the other Yahoo questions. Oh, I also have saved nearly $10,0 on gas since I bought the car.

  • You mean like with a cork?

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