A woman uses 10,000–20,000 tampons and/or pads in her lifetime.

The average weight of disposable products is:

• Tampon: approx. 2-3 g/pcs (4-5 g with packaging)
• Insert: approx. 8-10 g/pc (10-12 g with packaging)

Based on this, the total amount of waste during the total menstrual years (approximately 35 years):

• Tampons: 10,000–20,000 pcs x 4-5 g = 40–100 kg of waste.
• Inserts: 10,000–20,000 pcs x 10-12 g = 100–240 kg of waste.

Total waste in combined use: 150–300 kg of waste per woman in her lifetime . Since most pads and tampons contain 90% plastic-based materials (e.g. polyethylene), a woman can produce approximately 130-250 kg of plastic with disposable products in her lifetime, which takes 500-800 years to decompose (if it decomposes at all).

We produce 4-8 kg of waste per person per year from using disposable menstrual products, 90% of which is plastic!

Let's see how this all plays out in the case of washable menstrual panties.

A menstrual cup weighs about 50-100 g/piece. A woman needs about 40-60 pairs of panties in her lifetime if she replaces her basic set every 5 years.

This amounts to only 2–6 kg of textile waste over its entire life cycle .

Only 5-10% of the textile waste in Hip-Hip panties is plastic: part of the waterproof layer and the elastane, which gives the panties their elasticity, so using these panties results in 200-600 grams of plastic waste over a woman's entire lifetime.

Over the course of a year, the amount of plastic waste produced by using Hip-Hip panties is 5-20 GRAMS, which is less than 1% compared to disposable products!

Water and energy use in manufacturing are also an exciting topic. The production of both pads and tampons uses approximately 1,000–2,000 liters of water/kg, meaning that the production process wastes 2,000–10,000 liters of water per kilogram per year. This means that for the disposable products used by a woman in her entire life, this is 150,000–600,000 liters.

In contrast, the energy and water used in the one-time production of washable panties is negligible , while washing panties uses the same amount of water and energy as washing traditional panties, which we also use when using pads and tampons.

It takes 4,000-17,000 liters of water per year to produce one woman's disposable product, while the amount of water needed to produce washable panties is negligible!

Let's see all this in a table

By using Hip-Hip menstrual panties, the environmental impact caused by comfort products used during menstruation can be reduced by 95%!