Girl students in some tribal schools in Araku have switched to using reusable eco-friendly cloth napkins instead of the usual pads to bring down the number of sanitary pads being dumped in landfills by February 2018, thus doing their bit for the environment. For the past 10 months, the cloth pads are being distributed free of cost by Auroville, Puducherry. …
PETER DOCKRILL 30 AUG 2017 An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up. The plan, which saw a juice company dump 1,000 truckloads of waste orange peel in a barren pasture in Costa Rica back in the mid 1990s, has eventually …
Sanitary waste is an environmental hazard. Menstrual waste is growing in India. Although there is no official estimate of its generation in the country, a 2011 survey has calculated that 9000 tonnes of menstrual waste, largely used sanitary napkins, is generated in India every month. These sanitary napkins, soaked in bodily fluids, are disposed with regular household waste and often …
World Environment Day: How disposable Sanitary Napkins mess up Health and Hygiene Our grandmothers may have used cloth pads, but periods are unimaginable without disposable sanitary napkins for women today. However, what doesn’t occur to most of us is that over a billion of these non-compostable sanitary pads are making their way into sewerage systems, landfills, fields and water bodies in …
Gift Reusable Sanitary Pads to Needy Schoolgirls and…
Inspire them to Plant Trees
