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“Greening” Your Condoms

July 12, 2009

“If 10,000 Biters use biodegradable condoms every time they make a little love, in a year we’ll avert enough polyurethane to fill 223 outdoor trash cans,” according to a website called Ideal Bite.

The July 10 post offers tips on eco-friendlier condoms. To read the post, click
here.

Condoms have the dual advantage of helping to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Both help green your sex life by lowering the birthrate and the need for medical interventions to treat STIs. Remember to dispose of condoms properly — in the garbage — to avoid wasting water and the money needed to have a plumber to clear pipes clogged by condoms. Foil condom wrappers can’t be recycled, but the boxes can be recycled in most areas with cardboard and paper recycling programs.

Written by MDavis · Filed Under Sex, Honestly 

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2 Responses to ““Greening” Your Condoms”

  1. Ross on July 23rd, 2009 9:39 am

    For those primarily concerned by climate change: some condom manufacturers are making their products less carbon intensive but not even telling us! The health and well-being message which needs to be got across is (rightly) deemed more important than ‘green’ condoms. It doesn’t help the trash aspect of the environmental problem though.

    The chairman of the company which makes the Durex brand recently detailed how much less carbon intensive Durex condoms were becoming in a quietly-released eco-article, but their normal PR refuses to pursue the message. The company gains by reduced production costs and we gain from making our nocturnal habits less carbon-intensive!

  2. MDavis on July 24th, 2009 3:40 pm

    Sounds fairly silly for a condom company’s PR firm to be skittish about promoting yet another benefit of condoms!

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