August 31, 2007 · Posted in: Environment Watch, i Report Features
A feminine challenge
WOMEN are often at the forefront of environmental movements so it’s ironic that only a few of them seem aware that a product they buy month after month is hardly eco-friendly. Indeed, environmentalists say that used sanitary napkins are now among the mainstays of today’s dumpsites. Worse, plastic, which is nonbiodegradable, is a key component of the modern sanitary pad.
Unfortunately, while sanitary-napkin manufacturers keep on coming up with one innovation after another in what they say are attempts to make menstruating women more comfortable, they do not seem to be under any kind of pressure to produce pads that will be kinder to the environment. And while there seems to be a bit of stirring among the women, with some rediscovering the good old pasador, the convenience of the disposable sanitary pad is proving too difficult to resist.
We hope the piece, the latest in i Report‘s current series on the Filipino woman, will help spur readers to think about the price of convenience, and not only in connection with sanitary napkins.
Read on at pcij.org.
1 Response to A feminine challenge
pianxx
September 1st, 2007 at 12:26 pm
TO ALL
I know this to be out of place. Please bear with me. I just want to create awareness by choosing the busy forum or the latest.
Do consider Dr. Martin Bautista for the next elections obviously (a senatorial candidate of ‘Ang Kapatiran’ together with Adrian Sison and Zosimo Paredes). He’s a 44-year-old gastroenterologist in the US who came home after 17 years. You can see from his background that he truly means service. For those who find him to be a hypocrite for working abroad, do understand he’s a family man who needs to sustain his family, that he will be able to keep his independence by not relying on public funds to support his family. He helps his countrymen in his capacity but it’s just not enough for there are millions of Filipinos. It’s a good start in Philippine Politics to have him and his party around.
I urge you to forward/text/inform all your contacts about them. I believe they only lack exposure that’s why I’m doing this. But I can’t do it alone so I’m appealing to everyone’s help. If all will inform their contacts about them and urge them as well to forward, we might hit a million.
We cannot afford to be indifferent now if we want meaningful change. Otherwise we only have ourselves to blame. BUT TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.