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80% of Girls Flush their Pads and Tampons Down the Toilet |
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This Effects the Water We Drink! |
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1There are nearly 2 million girls in Australia who are between the menstruating ages of 11-24 yrs who live with their parents. |
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280% of these girls flush their sanitary pads and tampons down the toilet into our waste water system. |
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2Girls Flush their Pads and Tampons because alternatives are messy, smelly and embarressing. |
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2On average each girl will use 10 pads or tampons 12 times a year. This means that 192 million pads and tampons end up in our waste water and have to be removed and treated. |
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4Treatment of pads and tampons costs millions of litres of clean water each year. So while you're doing your best to save water girls flushing their pads and tampons are simply wasteing it. |
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6Don't flush sanitary napkins, tampons, down the toilet. Plastics and plastic film from personal hygiene items, are one cause of private sewer blockages. Not only are householders inconvenienced, there is a cost to the community of repairing or clearing these blockages and depending on where the blockage is in the sewerage system, you may have to bear the cost of clearing it.
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3,5Chemicals from pads and tampons such as additives, bactericides, fungicides, absorbency gels, glues, fibres, and cancer causing dioxins can remain in treated waste water and be released into the environment. |
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Landfill Reduction |
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1In Australia alone there are 5.5 million females between the menstruating ages of 12-55 yrs. 2On average a female will menstruate 12 times a year using approximately 10 sanitary items for each menstruating cycle. Assuming sanitary pads are used, 660 million pads will be disposed of to landfill each year in Australia alone. |
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SDU's unique and innovative compression system means potentially 75% of landfill requirements may be saved. On average a sanitary item occupies 88 cubic centimetres resulting in a total of 58,080 cubic metres of used sanitary items going into landfill sites in Australia. By using the SDU this volume can potentially be reduced by 75%. This reduction equivalent to 15,000 6x4ft trailers full to a height of 1 metre. |
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Reduction of Plastic Bag Usage |
1In Australia alone there are 5.5 million females between the menstruating ages of 12-55 yrs. 2On average a female will menstruate 12 times a year using approximately 10 sanitary items for each menstruating cycle. Assuming sanitary pads are used, 660 million pads will be disposed of to landfill each year in Australia alone.
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| 1 Small (Blue) Hygiene Replacement Bag disposes of 15-20 Sanitary Pads &/or Tampons. No need to use 1 bag for each used sanitary item any more. |
| The equivalent in other plastics bags is 5- 10 times more in volume. |
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No need to use 1 bag for each used sanitary item any more. |
Reuse - Use the wrapper to wrap the used item. |
Reduce - Reduce the required landfill by 75%. |
Minimise Waste - If you have to use a bag get the most out of it. And SDU is continuously sourcing and developing ways to further help the environment. |
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Protection for Our Waterways |
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Within Australia and throughout many countries such as the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Malaysia, and South Africa sanitary product packaging advises that tampons and sanitary napkins not be disposed of into the sewerage system. 4Disposal in this way results in blockages to toilet plumbing, waterway pollution and clogged septic systems. |
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3The contamination of our waterways is best described in data from the research and development department of Rentokil. 'Across the world, some two million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals die every year as a result of contamination by plastic debris such as pantyliner backing strips.' For more information on the Global Marine Litter Problem www.marine-litter.gpa.unep.org/ |
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With an SDU in the home you can be assured that you are protecting our Precious Waterways and stopping unnecessary pollution from sanitary waste. |
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