WASH and Women | Nasreen Habib. Mpcb.gov.in/images/pdf/draft-bmwmh.pdf. Sanitary napkin disposal bag from SWaCH — Welcome to the eCoexist network! PMC starts sanitary pad disposal centre. To dispose of sanitary napkins in a hygienic manner, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) with the help of city-based NGO Jan Adhar has started a Sanitary Napkins Disposal Project under which 800 napkins can be disposed of per day. PMC claims to be the first municipal corporation in the country to start such a project. Presently, sanitary napkins are not segregated from other solid wastes and are disposed of along with other garbage at the garbage depot in Undri. The new centre has been set up at Vartak garden in Shaniwar Peth on an experimental basis for ward number 37. The centre will be inaugurated by member of assembly Madhuri Misal on Saturday. Mukta Tilak, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) corporator of ward number 37, said, “The present population of the city is 40 lakh.
Of this, around 15 lakh are women aged between 13 and 45 years. Members of the NGO said that nearly 1,368 napkins are collected from ward number 37 everyday. Sanitary napkins clogging city. Almost every one might have come across signboards in restrooms in public places or toilets in public transport system, instructing women not to dispose of used sanitary napkins in toilets. Sanitary napkin companies too instruct the same. However , a proper disposal technique on a large-scale and the health hazards associated with disposing of sanitary napkins properly are yet to be addressed. Although every woman in every household acknowledges that these napkins pose a major threat to the environment, the lack of proper methods is leaving them with no choice but to either burn the sanitary napkins or wrap them up and hand them over to waste collectors.
A woman’s affair with the sanitary napkins ends with their disposal, but the waste collectors, who are already engaged in a nauseating job, have to put up with the harrowing experience of collecting this waste and find ways to dispose them of without causing a hindrance to the public. Portable sanitary napkin disposer a solution. An uncomfortable but scary truth. There is one category of waste that makes everybody queasy. It is the disposal of our sanitary waste: used feminine hygiene products and used disposable diapers.
With the addition of blood or faeces, used disposables become dangerous for a city corporation to deal with. They cannot be humanely handled by garbage collectors; they contain a cocktail of materials including cotton, a super absorbent polymer, and a whole lot of plastic. The environmental trail of these products is even more alarming. It takes 236 ml of crude oil to create the plastic that goes into a single disposable diaper. Parents who their baby in disposable diapers until two would run through 5,000 disposable diapers; 20 trees will be cut and 1,180 litres of crude oil used to make these 5,000 diapers. The statistics around feminine hygiene products are no less alarming. The solution Reusable cloth diapers Reusable sanitary towels The first is the 'She Cup', worn internally and made from silicone.
Www.nif.org.in/bd/upload/innovator_profile_pdf/a.muruganantham.pdf. Sanitary napkins with bamboo pulp score over regular pads. ShareThis Facebook Tweet Email In a first-of-its-kind venture in India, bamboo pulp is being used in the manufacture of sanitary pads as absorbing material, instead of the regular wood pulp.
"Sanitary napkin companies use 10 gramme of wood pulp in each napkin. "We are doing a feasibility study (at the Kudal plant),' says Tyagi. There are two types of napkins being manufactured. The product has been distributed in local hospitals. Media | Eco Femme. New Indian Express Express, 15 December 2013 You may brush off Kathy Walkling’s suggestion of using a cloth pad instantly. But if you give it some thought, you will realise that she does have a point. And a good one too.
It takes over 500 years for a single disposable sanitary pad to decompose. And how many does a woman use in a month and in a year? Do the math. Disposal sanitary napkins pose a huge waste management problem in an over-populated country like India which has inadequate waste disposal mechanisms. Menstrupedia, 19 October 2013 Every year, over 45 billion pads are dumped in landfills, only in the United States and Canada (we don’t have India numbers, but it is safe to assume they are similar). On the other hand, menstruation is not cool. (Shreya Pareek’s article above was originally featured in The Alternative, 27 June 2013: ‘Social Enterprise Showcase: Eco femme – a cloth pad for true empowerment’ ) Greenz.jp, 25 September 2013 生理用布ナプキンを知っていますか？
InnovateUs Magazine, June 2013. Menstrual Cup: time to reduce that monthly plastic. We don’t have statistics from India, but one can safely assume that the phenomenon is similar everywhere. An average North American uses 16,800 disposable pads/tampons during a lifetime. Every year, in Britain alone, a staggering 1b sanitary towels get disposed off and end up in landfills. I have a habit of lecturing kirana store folks on the perils of plastic, whenever they offer me a (disposable) plastic bag, which I turn down. But, yesterday, to my pleasant surprise, a store owner near my house proudly pointed me to a hoarding mentioning their newly instated policy of charging for plastic bags. In fact, from what I have observed and read, this is a trend that has been sweeping the whole country, albeit slowly. In terms of individual environmental responsibility too, I have seen strides made in the right direction, in my circles at any rate. I have friends who now cycle to work, buy local, curb meat, and most commonly, reduce the use of disposables.
So what exactly is a menstrual cup? AID Publications - No Need to Whisper - Jivika Proudly Presents Cloth Sanitary Napkins. Disposable sanitary napkin manufacturers market not only a product, but an attitude - that we can feel confident, go out and about, not worry about our period. Welcoming this message, we sought a green way to embrace it. What difference can a clean, green menstrual pad bring? Read More... Indian women have traditionally fashioned sanitary napkins using old clothes. In rural areas the vast majority of women continue this practice even today. Disposable sanitary napkin manufacturers market not only a product, but also an attitude - that we can feel confident, go out and about, not worry about our period.
The product aims to make the period more comfortable, and also encourage women to talk about menstruation, as they have already begun to do while going door-to-door to sell the pads. What do you think? Aravinda Pillallamarri is an AID Jeevansaathi and works full-time on women's issues,maternal health and rural empowerment.
Alternatives emerge for disposable diapers and sanitary napkins. There is one category of waste few want to discuss: used sanitary napkins and disposable diapers. With the addition of blood or faeces, these disposables become a health hazard for the city. Further, there is also no humane way for garbage collectors to handle this waste. The environmental trail of these disposables is even more alarming. A parent choosing disposable diapers, typically till the baby is two years old, would run through 5,000 disposable diapers which would require 20 trees to be cut down and 1,180 litres of crude oil burnt during manufacture.
The statistics around feminine hygiene products are no less alarming. (Download a list of useful tips here Apart from wood pulp used in both disposable diapers and sanitary napkins, chlorine bleach is a key ingredient; used to whiten the pulp for aesthetic reasons. The solutions Re-usable Modern Cloth Diapers (MCD) have two parts, a water-tight outer cover with a washable cloth insert inside. Workshops: Www.johnson.cornell.edu/Portals/0/PDFs/1st place.pdf. Now get a sanitary napkin for Rs 2.50. A teacher-student duo of the Institute of Technology and Management (ITM) here has designed a machine that will be able to provide a biodegradable sanitary napkin for just Rs.2.50 apiece. Assistant professor Ashwini Sharma, along with his pupil Surbhit Arora, used wood pulp to produce the napkin, which is both biodegradable and cost-effective.
‘A majority of the rural and poor urban women in India use pieces of cloth and other unhygienic things during menstruation, as they cannot buy sanitary napkins which are expensive. We hope the machine will be helpful to them,’ said Sharma. The machine can make the napkin in a three-step process that involves pressing, sealing and cutting. All these three steps occur in one cycle, in which four napkins are produced in one go. (Read: Eco-hazards of sanitary pads) ‘The machine is semi-automatic and uses only a small amount of power, so it can be used to run small and medium enterprises.
Source: IANS Loved this article? The Water Hyacinth Sanitary Pad Project. An Abundant Source Solution Addressing a Barrier to Girls Education while Tackling an Environmental Crisis The Water Hyacinth Sanitary Pad Project is a sustainable social enterprise that produces biodegradable sanitary pads out of water hyacinth, an invasive aquatic species, as well as other local agricultural waste. The production of a locally made pad provides girls and women a low cost, biodegradable product that sustains income-generating jobs and provides girls with access to necessary personal hygiene products, with the goal of breaking the stigma around menstruation.
The Need Societal: All over the world, girls face unthinkable challenges when they begin menstruation. Without access to hygiene products girls can miss up to 50 days of school per year, causing them to fall behind in class and be ill-prepared for national exams that would have given them a chance to receive an education. Access to education can significantly change the course of a girl’s life. The Approach Production ers. Shelving his studies to make sanitary pads. It was his final year at the Nanyang Technological University and his peers were busy preparing for the final exams or job hunting. But Mr Andrew Yin, 23, made an unusual decision: He took a gap year to work on his "pad" project - coming up with cheap sanitary pads for women in developing countries. "My family and friends were incredulous that I had chosen to do this at such a crucial point in my undergraduate life," said Mr Yin, who took a break in August from his double-degree programme in business and accountancy.
But he decided to go ahead with his project. Mr Andrew Yin and Ms Ho Yen Yee with the sanitary pad prototype they came up with using corn leaf and water hyacinth fibres (in the container). -- ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG Undergraduate Mr Andrew Yin, 23, took a gap year just to work on his “pad” project - coming up with cheap sanitary pads for women in developing countries. "The time was right and opportunities don't wait for us to be ready, you just have to seize them," he said.
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