More than 1.1 lakh kg of sanitary pad waste is generated every year in India. Disposing of the waste is of great concern for everyone but only a few act on it.  Nisha Nazre, a 29-year-old woman from Bengaluru has built an incinerator to dispose of this waste. The best part is it's completely eco-friendly. Six years ago when Nisha went to throw her used pad in a garbage dump near her house, she saw a waste picker collecting used pads with his bare hands.She was extremely shocked and decided to find a solution to the problem.

The normal menstrual waste incinerators in India consist of just a single coil which burns the sanitary napkins.This is equivalent to burning your sanitary napkins with a matchstick and they don't have any kind of filter to stop the gases produced. After working for about five years in 2017 she finally developed an eco-friendly menstrual waste disposal solution and created the Zuci Fem Care incinerator. Now, Zuci Fem Care incinerator consists of three filters, which treats the gases using water. The incinerator has features such as smoke treatment, odor treatment as well as water treatment, to make sure it is absolutely a zero-pollution causing machine. The machine has the ability to dispose 50 pads at once.

Nisha has already gotten the patent for the machine and is in talks with the concerned government authorities of Karnataka, Telangana, Punjab and Haryana to install these machines at waste management units.

Karnataka and Telangana have already installed two and one units respectively.

Tags

• Sanitary
• Pads
• Incinerators
• Disposable
• Bengulur

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