Menstrual hygiene in urban spaces: Willingness to shift to environmentally safer sanitary products

Shifting to alternate products and / or sustainable management of sanitary waste is the need of the hour

Is green menstruation possible?

One sanitary pad could take 500 to 800 years to decompose as the plastic used is non-biodegradable and can lead to health and environmental …

Menstrual hygiene management in India: Still a long way to go

Awareness, education and access to safe products are still at very preliminary phase in the country

Indian scientists develop environment-friendly device to dispose sanitary napkins

GreenDispo will incinerate the sanitary napkins completely with minimal flue gas emission

Ignored by the state, these Padwomen in Dharwad found livelihood in re-usables

Women adopt sustainable menstruation after govt stops funding their pad-making units

The mammoth task of managing menstrual waste in India

India has close to 12.3 billion disposable sanitary napkins to take care of every year, majority of which are not biodegradable/compostable

Menstrual cycle is normal; our attitude towards it is not

Girls and women have to fight social norms as well as lack of access to safe adsorbents, bathing space and water to manage their menstrual cycles

Taxing menstrual products is like taxing women for being women

Instead of being counted as ‘necessities’, sanitary napkins are counted as ‘luxury products’ in India

About 23 per cent girls drop out of school on reaching puberty

The report emphasises the need to normalise menstruation by looking at behaviour, infrastructure, politics and perception

Menstrual hygiene in Africa: No pad or no way to dispose it

Women in sub-Saharan Africa still struggle to have a healthy and safe period

Cyclone Fani: Women were left with just one cloth to cover body, manage menstruation

In the absence of gender-sensitive disaster response mechanism, women in a Puri village tore the only cloth they had after the disaster …

India’s landfills add 113k tonnes of menstrual waste each year: Report

Around 88% respondents want to switch to less-polluting alternatives but report they are not easily available

COVID-19: Rural UP girls wait for schools to reopen to get sanitary napkins

With schools that distributed sanitary napkins shut, girls have gone back to using cloth 

More women opting for safe menstrual practices, NFHS-5 data shows

The percentage of women using safe menstrual products highest in Andaman and Nicobar Islands (98.9%); least in Bihar at 58.8%

Lack of access to sanitary products, privacy drives girls away from schools in Zambia

New report says girls prefer to stay home during menstruation for fear of staining their dresses, interacting with and being teased by boys, as …

Stigma, lack of awareness, accessibility: What’s holding eco-friendly shift in menstrual waste disposal

There is absolutely no segregation of menstrual waste at the household level; most of it lands up in landfills, against guidelines of Solid …

Menstrual Hygiene Day: Why dispelling stigma, promoting hygiene practices need govt intervention

The Rajasthan government allocated Rs 200 crore to Free Medicine Scheme to facilitate dispensation of free sanitary napkins 

Free sanitary pads for girls in middle and high schools of Bihar

The napkins will be supplied by self-help-groups

Periods in a pandemic: Women, girls in low-income settlements need more support

Measures taken to slow the spread of COVID-19 may have made things worse by affecting their ability to buy sanitary products