This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.
Ban Beach Whistles
I was one of 130 volunteers who went to McNabs Island to clean up garbage that had washed on the beach. While it makes sense that we picked up fishing lines, styrofoam floats and the like, I just don’t get why women continue to buy and flush plastic tam
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I completely agree with this. My boyfriend and I recently went to point pleasant park, and while trying to enjoy the beautiful sunset we had to tip-toe around plenty of these applicators. There are plenty of other alternatives available to these, and if you MUST use the plastic ones, they come with a wrapper to dispose of them properly – not to be flushed. I hope it is not in the distant future that they discontinue making these “luxury” items – anyone even remotely interested in helping our poor planet survive would switch to the cardboard applicators, or the “OB” brand (which has no applicator.) To the women who complain about “not wanting to touch themselves” or about “the mess” – you SHOULD be washing your hands after you use the restroom anyway, so just use a little more soap. Get over yourselves…do you think they had the option of using plastic 60, 70, 100 years ago? Not quite. Seems to me they got by just fine.