Gone are the days when women would look for old newspapers for throwing away the sanitary waste. It is not okay to waste paper for disposal if it can be recycled for better use. However, it is ...

A growing environmental and public health concern is emerging across Himachal Pradesh’s towns, where the open burning of used sanitary pads has become a routine method of menstrual waste disposal. Yet ...

Menstruation is a natural process experienced by millions of menstruators worldwide. However, the disposal of menstrual waste, such as sanitary pads, tampons, and other related products, poses ...

KOCHI: Finally, a solution is in sight for the alarming sanitary waste disposal issue that the city has been facing for a long time. Construction of a Rs 3.45-crore biomedical waste treatment plant, a ...

Seeing ragpickers segregate used sanitary napkins and diapers from other waste with their bare hands moved Ajinkya Dhariya to set up PadCare Labs, an ecosystem that provides an end-to-end solution ...

Chandigarh: Safe and sustainable disposal of menstrual waste remains a major challenge in rural Punjab despite the widespread ...

Sanitary waste disposal has become an increasing problem in India due to the plastic used in disposable sanitary napkins being non-biodegradable leading to health and environmental hazards. The Pune ...

The Local Self-Government department has released Standard Operating Procedures for the effective management of sanitary waste and hazardous waste with one of the major focus areas being the ...

Months after a woman research scholar from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL) raised the issue of absence of sanitary pad disposal mechanism at ...