THINX underwear keeps girls in school and plastic out of landfills.

The company's absorbent skivvies hold up to two tampons' worth of blood and could reduce the industry's waste problem. And AFRIpads, a group that provides reusable pads to women and girls in developing countries—where many miss class during their "weeks of shame"—gets a donation for each pair sold. Sounds great...let's hope they work! Forbes