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Menstrual cups are a cheaper, more sustainable way for women to cope with periods than tampons or pads

  • Written by: Susan Powers, Spence Professor of Sustainable Environmental Systems and the Director of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, Clarkson University
Menstrual cups are a cheaper, more sustainable way for women to cope with periods than tampons or padsA woman holds a menstrual cup in Kenya. Gioia Forster/picture alliance via Getty Images

Every year in America, women spend at least US$2.8 billion on sanitary pads and tampons that can take hundreds of years to decompose. Is there a more economical and environmentally friendly way? To find out, we asked Susan Powers, a professor of sustainable...

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