Being green

If you're a girl, do you think you would ever, EVER use one of these?

I'm all for environmentally friendly stuff, and recycle all our unwanted paper/ plastic/ glass/ clothes (charidee shops) but draw the line at reusing feminine hygenie products. I don't like the way tampax compak come with plastic applicators and plastic individual wrappers, and I can't actually find information on the website about the environmental issues associated with tampon applicators. So I'll have a stab (in my lunch break).

I think that the used applicator is essentially biological waste, same as used gauze and sharps, and as such would probably require a high level of energy to be expended in order to prepare them for the recycling process.

The normal sized, not compak, tampons (with the papery/ card applicator and paper wrapper) are probably more friendly in that they do biodegrade, but they'll still clutter up landfills and probably present some of the same bio-hazard issues as the plastic applicators.

So even though I've thought about the environmental issues, I'm still not buying a mooncup.