For british environmental activist ella daish it all started by asking folks to send her their plastic tampon applicators.
Plastic tampon applicator environment.
Tampons come wrapped in plastic encased in plastic applicators with plastic strings dangling from one end and many even include a thin layer of plastic in the absorbent part.
As the applicators poured in one thing became abundantly clear most of them were from tampax.
Ella daish 28 created the human sized applicator as part of her campaign for companies to eliminate plastic from their sanitary products.
The piece is made out of period plastic found polluting beaches waterways.