Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. After however many months spent indoors with three roommates and one 13-gallon trash can, my big ...

When a U.K. startup began selling a subscription service to period products in 2015–the menstrual version of the Dollar Shave Club–they offered both disposable and reusable products. The reusable ...

We've got a period problem. Every year, billions of menstrual products are thrown away and can end up in landfills or the ocean, where they can take years — sometimes decades — to degrade. How do we ...

THINX CEO Miki Agrawal tells me I shouldn't feel badly that I can't seem to dig applicator-less tampons. "Sometimes nails are long and it scratches, sometimes hands aren't clean, sometimes people ...

In recent years, many menstrual product manufacturers have focused on developing products that cause less harm to the environment. From menstrual cups to absorbent period underwear, products are being ...

It’s hard to gross out Cindy Zipf. Three decades of cleaning up beaches have inured her to the horrors of, say, a washed-up diaper. But there’s one kind of trash that Zipf, executive director of the ...

When Celia Pool and Alec Mills first approached investors with a plan to design the world’s first reusable tampon applicator, she was met with skepticism. The pair already had a business, DAME, which ...

A woman has detailed a “nasty” shock she made about an essential item while living in Australia, revealing it’s very different back home. TikTok user @jamieeastonn shared a video claiming applicator ...