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Designing and development of disposal technique of sanitary pad by installing crushers in the toilet pot

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By-Aadarsh A. Rathi
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si4.1344

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In a country like India which has such humongous population, the magnitude of problem is also huge. The problem of disposal of used sanitary pads is one of them. The youth of today is quite vigilant, but the age group of 30 to 40 is still in efforts to cope up with the new ideology of “Swach Bharat” ,an initiative which the youth is aware about but implementation as always is a problem in India. Disposal of sanitary pads has always been a problem not only physically but hygienically too. The statistics says currently an estimate of 35% of around 350 Million women uses sanitary pads in India. The pro is that atleast they are using something medically acclaimed rather then cotton, cloth or leaves as in some rural cases, but this is also leveraging another problem of disposing these sanitary pads which the Authorities must address as soon as possible. The total Generation of sanitary pads in India is approximately 12.3 billion. Looking at such huge number of generation of sanitary pads ,a compact area wise solution is not viable, infact the problem is in every bathroom so the solution also need to be there is every bathroom only. Before dwelling into this let us first understand what all problems needs to be understood

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