Why we’re backing phs Group and Prostate Cancer UK’s new campaign
phs Group is a leader in washroom hygiene and are passionate about recognising needs, designing innovative and sustainable solutions to address and deliver them.
phs Group have been steadfast in their commitment to recognising women’s issues causing adversity, tackling period inequality and raising awareness about the barriers to education for girls and women caused by a lack of access to sanitary products.
Now, phs Group want to bring down the barriers for incontinent men, too, by leading the way, helping to normalise the problem so that nobody feels too embarrassed or ashamed to talk about it.
Together with Prostate Cancer UK, phs’ Group campaign will highlight the challenges faced by men experiencing male urinary incontinence, to provide a platform for their voices to be heard, and together, to be a catalyst for change.
Prostate Cancer UK is the largest men’s health charity in the UK and understands men and the struggles they face during and after treatment for prostate cancer. This can include urinary incontinence as a result of prostate removal, or other treatments such as radiotherapy.
Male urinary incontinence: the facts
One in three men over 65 are estimated to have a urinary incontinence problem in the UK, with 1 in 25 men aged over 40 will experiencing some form of urinary leakage every year in the UK.*
Furthermore, The NHS estimate that between 3-6 million people in the UK suffer with some degree of urinary incontinence.**
DISCREET. DIGNIFIED. DISPOSAL.
phs Group are committed to creating safe spaces for men and have therefore created an innovative male incontinence bin designed to help men dispose of their waste safely and discreetly. We are proud to be supporting this campaign, by installing male incontinence bins across our washrooms. And what’s more, the hygiene waste collected in our bins will be sent to energy from waste facilities, which will be incinerated to create energy to power homes, hospitals and even schools***.
What can you do to help?
Help us spread the word! On Prostate Cancer UK’s website, you will find a letter template, which you can download and send to your local MP to urge Government to provide the necessary facilities for men to dispose of their incontinence products, discreetly. Download the letter here.
*https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20541241/
**NHS: https://www.allaboutincontinence.co.uk/incontinence-statistics and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23945476/
***phs has an objective to divert up to 95% of customers waste away from landfill via energy from waste facilities