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Some startling news interrupted and superseded my original plans for this column with its urgency: a recent Argentinian study has found glyphosate in tampons.1 Now, this news in itself, while galling, did not surprise me. Cotton, after all, was one of...

“Meluna farbauswahl 1 1″ by Frank Krueger. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Fifteen years after I got my first period, and after six months of experiments, I’ve just gone through a whole period using only a menstrual cup. I feel like Marie...

We have grown so reliant on throwaway products for perfectly natural events that sometimes people wonder how on earth they would deal with it if suddenly those products were unavailable.  Of course, for many centuries we handled things like menstruation...

We have grown so reliant on throwaway products for perfectly natural events that sometimes people wonder how on earth they would deal with it if suddenly those products were unavailable.  Of course, for many centuries we handled things like menstruation...

"The menstrual business is booming!" This is how Meagan Brockway puts it over the phone. She heads up customer service and account management at GladRags, a Portland, Oregon–based company that sells sustainable feminine hygiene products. "With the...