Mangaluru: While the disposal of menstrual waste has become an increasing problem in India, Gram Panchayat in Dakshina Kannada District leads how to manage menstrual waste locally.
GP, with more than 3,000 populations, including 1,789 women, applying solid waste interventions to effectively separate and identify menstrual waste during routine garbage collection.
Kilpady GP has launched ‘Rutu’, a campaign dedicated to menstrual and cleaning health, under the Mission of Swachh Bharat, on Monday.
As part of this campaign, they have distributed a pink box, which functions as a trash can, to school, Anganwadis and Panchayat Building, so that women throw sanitation pads in these boxes, after wrapping it in a paper.
The napkin is then collected and burned.
Providing details about the initiative, Kilpady Panchayat Development Officer Poornima told Ti: this is possible for the first time in the state, that a GP has launched the initiative of this nature, under the Swachh Grama Swastth Bharat campaign.
As part of solid resource management and liquid (SLRM), we encourage people to take compost pipes for kitchen waste, and in some areas, the collection of wet waste from the door to the door has begun.
“Sanitary waste disposal has become a challenge.
Many sanitation sanitary napkins are produced using materials such as super absorbent polymers, non-biodegradable plastic, glue and so on, which may take around 500 years to decay.
In urban areas as well, improper disposal methods And it does not separate menstrual waste from household waste, leads to non-hygienic working conditions, and causes the risk of spreading infectious diseases among workers.
Because of the rules of solid waste management (2016) consider menstrual waste as sanitary waste under solid waste, as the first step , We have installed about six pink boxes to throw it away, and so awareness about increasing problems, we hope to increase the number.
The box is installed, “he said.
Panchayat has bought incinerators who throw napkins by burning and turning them into ashes.
Instinerators installed have a burning capacity of around 60 bearings at a time, in 20 minutes.
“The response is so far.
We encourage members of AshaWadis and Asha and SHG to spread awareness of the disposal of safe sanitation pads,” Poornima said.