Plastic waste: do you really need to take that pregnancy test?

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Have you ladies ever thought about how much plastic waste we generate from taking ovulation and pregnancy tests unnecessarily? It’s estimated that 2,000,000 pounds of pregnancy test plastic ends up in landfills each year
Plastics and microplastics are filling our oceans, negatively impacting wildlife and ourselves as a consequence. ***Most importantly, affecting the world of the children we want to bring into this world***
It pains me to see ladies take 2-3 pregnancy tests a day, in anticipation of that BFP band. Every pregnancy test (e.g. First Response or Clearblue) is enveloped in unnecessary single-use plastic, which gets dumped into our ocean. 
For the love of our world and our children’s future, I ask you to please be cautious of this - stop obsessively taking pregnancy tests prematurely.
With love,
Xox

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Im not disagreeing with you per say. Every person needs to make the effort for positive change. But you cant get mad at consumers for wanting to use a product easily available to them. Companies need to provide us with more environmentally friendly products and better direction on how to dispose of them in order to help make change

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Test strips are awesome, cheaper, use much less material, and are more inconspicuous if you want to get rid of the test discreetly. I’m a big fan of them!

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I get you, but most of the plastic polluting the oceans come from commercial fishing nets and equipment and factory byproducts, not a few extra tests a woman takes one week a month. I don’t see how putting more stress on an already stressed population achieves your purpose, or any purpose for that matter. Keep up the good fight but remember who the real enemies are here.

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Think of all those digital ones that get thrown out with the battery still in it. 
That being said, everyone has to make their own choices. We use a lot of plastic on our farm, so I try to make up for it in other ways, but I can’t say I ever really thought too hard about those little tests.

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I agree those woman that take 2-4 a day are just obsessive and weird.... Its unnecessary even doctors say its unnecessary!

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I only use the strips. I don’t know why the name brands have to put so much plastic on their tests.

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The world is screwed. This isn’t Wall-E. Humankind isn’t going to have some mass awakening and turn it all around, and not a thing we do differently - individually - will make up for the hundreds of thousands of pounds (PER MINUTE) of wasted paper, plastic, and other materials by the massive conglomerates that helped shape our planet into the hot mess we are becoming. I recycle, I reuse, but at the end of the day, we will be the downfall of the planet, and a few hundred pee sticks per person won’t even come close to our food waste or the level of pollution our cities have created that have destroyed the ecosystems and changed the climate.

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I think if we want to take 100 pregnancy tests a day we can do what we like. When people are feeling anxious and want to know if they are pregnant or not then wasting plastic doesn’t even come into our minds. Whatever we do, plastic will always be around and always ruining the earth etc us taking 1 test instead of 2 won’t make any difference. Plus I think that’s pretty insensitive.. we don’t take loads a day for the fun of it. It’s probably because we are anxious and want to help our own minds from going crazy.. that’s more important to me than worrying about a planet we will never be able to save!!!!

Plastic waste: do you really need to take that pregnancy test?

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