Figures from 2008 included 17,957 straws and stirrers, 3,319 tampon applicators, 656 condoms and 165 syringes.
In the July budget, Osborne pledged £13m for domestic violence refuges; in November 2015, he announced a £15m "tampon tax" fund that domestic violence services could apply to over the next four years.
Tampons and pads make up 10% of things flushed down toilets, a fact that makes wastewater workers despair, as well as beach cleaners: in a 2010 Beachwatch survey, for every kilometre of beach, 22.5 towels, panty liners or backing strips were found, and 8.9 tampon applicators.
The average woman uses roughly 11,000 tampons in her lifetime.
About 43 million women in the US use tampons; on average, a woman uses 11,000 tampons in her lifetime.
7) "Tampons can get lost in your vagina" NOTHING can get "lost" in your vagina.
(It is estimated that a woman will dispose of 11,400 tampons in her lifetime – an ecological disaster).
There are 9.3 million women using tampons in the UK, and the average woman will use roughly 11,000 tampons in her lifetime.
In their 2016 beach clean-up, the Marine Conservation Society found 20 tampons and sanitary items per 100 metres of shoreline.
The first American woman in space, Sally Ride, had to explain that women didn't need 100 tampons for a one-week mission.
