So, you know what else has got to be a huge waste of plastic?

Pads. Seriously. Every last disposable pad out there is lined with plastic, and packaged in plastic, and anyway, all those chemicals near your sensitive spots...

Can't stand tampons, though (which are boxed and then wrapped in plastic, and often individually sealed with some plastic... geez, and the ones you can buy in stores are all bleached* and... yeah).

So I'm totally making (much cheaper than buying, I suspect) my own pads to reuse. Does anybody have some decent patterns that I can find?

*_{And why is it that I can spend a dollar to buy a crappy (sorry) roll of toilet paper that's wrapped in paper, or I can spend that same dollar to buy a four better rolls, but they have to be wrapped in plastic? And is it possible to get unbleached toilet paper? Again, sensitive areas?}