Bleed Green: Sustainability and the Period Product Industry

Alekszandra Rokvity
5 min readApr 22, 2022

Did you know that your period is a major pollutant?

Inciclo

Of course, it’s not your actual period that is a pollutant —but the products you use to “handle it” most certainly are.

The Math

An average menstruating person has between 450 and 500 periods in their lifetime. In a lifetime, it’s expected that a person…

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Alekszandra Rokvity

Activist. Feminist. PhD Candidate in Cultural Studies and Medical Humanities.