Plastic is clearly not needed in period products.

Conventional period products contain up to 90 per cent plastic and are constantly being manufactured, are used for between 4-8 hours, then disposed of.

They then take over 500 years to break down – meaning that if Jane Austen had used them hers would still be decomposing today…

And when they are incorrectly flushed down toilets they get into rivers and oceans and end up on beaches; a report by the European Commission found that period items are the fifth most common waste washed up on beaches.