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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was taught never to pour grease down the drain, never to use Drano for a clog, but nothing about flushing tampons. My mother handed me a box of pads and a box of tampons and everything else I know came from the back of the box or Seventeen magazine. I wish we could stop resorting to name calling and class shaming over this. We can do better.

Incidentally, I was in a public restroom this morning and there was a stack of tiny paper bags with a sign about using them for feminine products and a small garbage can. That seems like a good way to do it. [/quote]

Even if no one ever specifically told you not to do it, hello...it is a tampon, that is designed to expand several times its size and NOT break down.  Why in the world would you think that is supposed to be flushed?[b] It would be like flushing the empty toilet paper roll, qtips, cotton makeup rounds, etc.  Do you flush other random stuff that is not TP?  [/quote]

Because the box said to! Believe me, the average 12 year old in the 80s wasn’t thinking this through.

Here, this is going way back to the 1930’s, but obviously up to some point in time, the standard instructions were to flush them. See “To Remove”: “...simply flush away.” (From the Museum of Menstruation!)

http://www.mum.org/tamins36.htm

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Didn't you have a sex ed class in 5/6th grade? Where they talk about periods and what to do? I specifically remember of gym teacher teaching it and showing us how to wrap pads in their wrapper and dispose and how to wrap a tampon very well in TP and throw in waste box[/quote]

How old are you? I’m certain this was not taught in my NoVa elementary school in 1988.[/quote]

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