Ok We Need To Talk
Dear Tampon User,
I get that you want to use Tampons. They rock the house being that they are effective and all. Can you do us all a favour please?
STOP WITH THE FLUSHING OF PLASTIC APPLICATORS
It is the grossest thing EVER to walk along the ocean, take a deep breath in to smell the ocean air then look down at a TAMPON APPLICATOR!
What the?
Ew …
“Mommy Look what I found .. a pretty white plastic thing!”
“PUT THAT DOWN”
ew ew ew ew
I know part of my gross out factor is that it is a TAMPON APPLICATOR … but seriously ew. Last time I had a period and used tampons (w00t for being pregnant and breastfeeding!) they had cardboard ones. You like ones that would dissolve and break down rather than stay on the beach FOREVER. Oh and another thing WHY ARE YOU FLUSHING IT?!?!? ew At least send it to the landfills not the OCEAN.
shudders!
Totally Grossed Out By Pollution,
Chelle
*I was so grossed out there is no photographic evidence at this time. Trust me it was gross.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Ewww.. that is manky. I can completely relate to your horror!! I didn’t even know you could flush stuff like that, you would have thought that it would block up the pipes before it even got to the ocean. Yuck.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:36 am
How GROSS. I think are just too lazy and it’s just convenient for those plastic applicator flusher people to just throw it in the toilet.
I really think too many people just don’t CARE about others, or the world, environment, etc etc. It’s sad, really.
And they still have cardboard applicators - I use them, and no, I don’t flush them!
February 26th, 2008 at 10:03 am
How does it get to the ocean from flushing? I think that’s what’s making me gag! Doesn’t it go to the water reclamation plant? That’s where the city “flushings” go here. (Ours goes in a well, so no flushing of tampon applicators here…well, if I needed those.)
February 26th, 2008 at 11:34 am
O.k., and I’m bothered when James picks up a cigarette.
Although yesterday, we were strolling in the library’s brand new garden, and there was an empty condom wrapper. ‘Please don’t pick it up. Please don’t have left the remains.’
“Let’s go check out our books now, shal we?” I say brightly.
At the library! What is wrong with people?
February 26th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Grody!!!! A nastier thought is that someone changed their ‘pon at the beach. Gag!
February 26th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
What kind of idiot’s would flush a plastic thing anyway? And, this is why I use OB. NO applicator!
But really, I didn’t know that stuff COULD end up in the ocean! I mean, don’t they have waste disposal sites that churn and tear that stuff up and do… whatever it is they do before they get rid of it? I know in Hawaii, after the process it and send it out to the ocean, the water is this blue dye color where it feeds to.
But yea, that is just disgusting!
February 26th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Ew! Who the hell flushes those? Gross. What is wrong with some people?
And HOW do you get kids not to pick up garbage? Primo always wants to recycyle “Kykle!” everything he sees on the ground.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
That is nasty!
Ack.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I totally understand your comment now!!!! That is DISGUSTING! Just read an article on this on another blog: here’s the link - this is something everyone needs to be aware of and start doing something about.
Ewwwwww. That is gross. And having to explain that to a young child too. FOUL.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=512424&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
February 26th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
That is worng on so many levels. I have used them yes, but have never flushed them. Who would flush them??
Ewww, ewwww, ewwww.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Hi,
Sorry for being out of touch lately.
The tampon scene sounds gross. What the__?
I left a tag for you on my blog.
Have a great day,
Dorit
February 27th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Gross indeed. I wonder how we can encourage clean up / prevention so that our kiddies get to enjoy a cleaner world?
Cheers
February 27th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Yuck, yuck, yuck!
February 27th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Oh wow, that’s gross.
February 27th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
ewww. ewww. ewww.
it’s frustrating that they make the darn plastic applicators at all.
buy a keeper, buy a moon cup, buy a diva cup! put an end to the disposable stuff clogging up the landfills and the ocean. ok, that’s the end of my public service announcement.
February 27th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Ewwww! Oh my goodness that is just disgusting! I don’t use tampons for several reasons. I would rather use cloth mama pads (http://www.somethingnewcreations.net/index.php) or my Diva Cup. Sorry you had to encounter such a gross situation!
February 27th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Sounds like a great bonding moment with the kid. Yikes. I used to use the cardboard, too, but I got my, um, head turned by how much easier the plastic ones slide in. Yea, I just typed “slide in.” Yikes again.
I need softer cardboard, I guess.
February 27th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Too funny! You are so right ! Makes me happy I never flush those things. Those cardboard ones are a little rough for me- I use the garbage though. I am going to have to check out the Diva Cup people are writing about. Somehow I don’t associate my period with being a Diva!
February 28th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Maritimes?
Goodness I have been away too long…
And my goodness what a different end of the spectrum… From Coast to coast…
Or as our former Prime Minister would say.. ‘from coast ta’ coast ta coast…’
And as for the post…ewwwwwwwe….
February 28th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Ewwwwww…….what’s even worse than it being gross is seeing our kids go after something like that. My kids actually found a hypodermic needle on the grounds of our old apartment building (so glad we got out of that place), but thank God they told me about it and didn’t pick it up or anything.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
That is so nasty! Ick, ick, ick!