Launch www.ptfperiod.info
FeaturedWe are happy to announce the launch of a new website, www.ptfperiod.info!
Our new website is designed to inform people who menstruate about plastic and toxic chemicals in hygienic products, their health and environmental effects, and the availability of more sustainable, plastic and toxic free options on the market. The site involves global perspectives and provides a platform for NGOs and individuals to share their stories, activities and good practice examples.
The website is part of the project entitled “Plastic and Toxic Free Period”, which is supported by Funding for Social Change Ltd and is part of a broad initiative promoting the use of plastic- and toxic-free disposable and reusable menstrual products. It is a joint initiative of a global coalition of NGO leaders such as HEJSupport, Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), Environmenstrual Coalition.
The website will contribute to the future where plastic- and toxic free sanitary products are affordable and available globally and where the environment is free from a top-ten source of non-value toxic waste.
To achieve this, we are starting a broad awareness raising campaign aiming at informing consumers, mainly people who menstruate about plastic and toxic chemicals in hygienic products, their health and environmental effects, and the availability of more sustainable, plastic and toxic free options on the market. We hope to significantly raise awareness of people in different counties and regions who largely stay unaware about the impact hygienic products have on human health and ways to reduce risk.
We are planning to contribute to social change and unite the existing local and national initiatives, make them stronger by forming a global coalition of NGO leaders such as Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), Environmenstrual Coalition, and many other interested organisations and individuals, including those working on chemicals, health, human rights, gender, plastic and more.
