Toxic chemicals are contained in disposable products that are bleached with chlorine compounds.
Tampons are disposable products, and they are bleached with chlorine compounds.
There is accumulating evidence that industrial uses of chlorine, including pulp and paper bleaching, produces and releases toxic dioxins which bioaccumulate in the environment causing serious harm to wildlife. Tampons and pads are often overpackaged and cause enormous waste. The average womyn may go through about 16,800 pads or tampons in her life, not to mention the millions of unnecessary plastic tampon applicators which wash up on beaches around the world and fill up landfills. Dioxin, a by-product of the chlorine bleaching process, has a number of serious health impacts. These include the probable link between dioxin and endometriosis, the possibility of cervical cancer being linked to prolonged tampon use over many years, toxic shock syndrome, headaches and so on.