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[quote=Anonymous]I don't care if you flush or if you toss in the trash.  Just wondering how many of your flushers consider yourself environmentally conscientious?  Do you recycle?  Do you try to make green choices?

Your tampons don't just disappear or disintegrate into the water when you flush them.  Would that life were so magic.  Once they reach the sewage treatment plant, they have to be fished out, where they are either sent to a landfill (same place they'd end up if you'd just toss them correctly in the first place) or incinerated (not great for the environment).  It also has the down side of contaminating water with blood and other diseases, which means they have to use that many more chemicals to treat the water.  Some slippery little fellows do make it out to the oceans, too.

If you are fine with that, more power to you.  Just don't pretend like they just disappear with a flush.  It is like thinking chicken and beef just magically appears in little ready-to-cook containers in your grocery store.

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