Use Of Unhygienic Measures Highest In Bihar, UP, Chhattisgarh, Finds Survey As many as 62% of India’s young women aged 15 to 24 years still use cloth during menstruation. According to a report, which pertains to the years 2015-16, as many as 82% of young women in Bihar still depend on pieces of cloth for protection during their menstrual cycle. …
National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (NIRRH), headquartered in Mumbai under the ICMR, will test a re-usable pad that can be used by women for at least a year and another, a 100 per cent biodegradable pad, especially for the rural population. The National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (NIRRH), headquartered in Mumbai under the ICMR, will test …
Do not touch the pickle! The odour of a menstruating woman is bad for preservatives in such food. Do not step out of your room or get into the kitchen; and dare you touch food made for other family members. Do not bathe during your period. Do not wash your stained/unstained clothes in the open. Do not go to the …
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 …
