Hey Girls Becomes First UK Period Product Manufacturer To Add ‘Do Not Flush’ Warning On All Disposable Product Wrappers As They Launch Anti-Flush Campaign #Dontrushtoflush

Social enterprise Hey Girls launched an awareness campaign today at Portobello Beach, highlighting the environmental cost of flushing period products down the toilet. It is estimated from a study conducted by the Journal of the Institution of Environmental Sciences that 700,000 panty liners, 2.5 million tampons and 1.4 period pads are flushed down the toilet every single day in the UK.  Many of these items not only contribute to expensive sewer blockages but can also end up in the ocean, In a first for period product manufacturers in the UK,…

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