Comments on: “Greening” Your Condoms http://honestexchange.com/greening-your-condoms/ Sexuality: core issues, clear communication Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:20:05 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: MDavis http://honestexchange.com/greening-your-condoms/comment-page-1/#comment-4 MDavis Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:40:59 +0000 http://honestexchange.com/?p=607#comment-4 Sounds fairly silly for a condom company's PR firm to be skittish about promoting yet another benefit of condoms! Sounds fairly silly for a condom company’s PR firm to be skittish about promoting yet another benefit of condoms!

]]> By: Ross http://honestexchange.com/greening-your-condoms/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Ross Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:39:08 +0000 http://honestexchange.com/?p=607#comment-3 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 <a href="http://www.energy-savingnews.com/2009/07/condoms-reduce-carbon-footprints-supply-chains/" rel="nofollow">less carbon intensive Durex condoms</a> 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! 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!

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