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by Sandhya Adhikari | 04-09-2019 02:25
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As per the Nepalese calendar today is the day called as ‘’Rishipanchami’’ when the girls who had had their period goes near to river to pray to god and ask forgiveness for the sin they have done after being on their menstrual cycle. This is the taboos existing in our society and still there is the system called as ‘’chaupadi’’ in far western region of Nepal where women/girls on their period have to live and sustain their four days in dark room isolated far away from house. This taboos ever hit my mind, and its so ridiculous that still the people of today generation following the same pattern. Why people cannot understand menstruation is not a sin it’s an achievement i.e. maturity to the women, natural and most healthy phenomenon taking place on women’s body. Lying under those sky thoughts ever popped on my head, Have I really done any sin after being on my period? And my brain stimulate me and answer yes and yes, menstrual and period shaming have the massive impact due to the product we are using during our period that contributes negative results in the health, end up incinerated or in landfills, pollution on the beach and the formation of sanitary pad ocean.We hear and have discussed on plastic pollution from various cup, straw, coffee cups etc, conduct awareness, conduct cleanliness campaign and so on. But, Do you know the sanitary product used during period consists of 90% plastics? Period products such as tampons, sanitary pads, sanitary napkins are predominantly made from massive plastics, which makes even harder for them to be broken down and degrade when mixed with sewage. According to the research what they have found that one pack of the sanitary pad is equivalent to quantity of plastic as four carried bag and we know plastics takes nearly 500 years for their decomposition. Now imagine, it has been estimated that the average women will dispose 11,000 sanitary product approximately 200kg menstrual product in her lifetime, now imagine half of the world population is female. Furthermore 8% of all waste that enter water treatment comes from the period waste as described by Water UK. Menstrual product has a great impact on the climate too which leaves carbon footprint of 5.3 kg Co2 equivalent. Not only in developing countries as majority of people from developing countries are illiterate but what the research has claimed that much from a developed countries sanitary products are flushed down the toilet. Approximately 700000 panty liners, 2.5 millions tampons and 1.4 millions sanitary towels are flushed down the toilet in the UK every single day as per the Journal of The Institution of Environment Sciences. Figure from the Marine Conservation Society reveal that on average 4.8 pieces of menstrual waste are found per 100m of beach cleaned. For every 100m beach that amount 4 pads, panty liners and baking stripes along with at least a tampon and applicator. All the product are mixed in the ocean and changing the water ocean into red ocean of sanitary pads and we all know plastic is extremely dangerous and detrimental to the marine life. And I consider this as a sin not a taboos. Now it a turn to pass our period day without using those plastic and leaving your footmarks to environment. Reducing period waste is not just a care of throwing used sanitary products in the bin rather than the toilet but using alternative method to make period as a plastic free period. Various new methods have been developed to reduce the carbon footprint. So to reduce these controversies menstrual cup made up of medical grade silicon can be used, organic tampons and pads from cotton can be used to make plastic free period. I spoke today now its our turn to take it wisely and leave no any carbon footmarks on this beautiful environment. Cant we??????? |
 
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23 Comments
Greetings Sandhya
I hope you are doing well
Great
Thank you so much for this report.
I hope yo read more from you
Keep writing
Green cheers!
Regards
Hema
Posted 18-03-2020 11:43
Greetings sandhya
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this great report
I hope to read more from you!
Green cheers
Regards
Ishma
Posted 17-03-2020 12:21
Greeting sandhya
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report.
I hope to read more from you.
Keep up with great works
Green cheers
Regards
Basanta
Posted 16-03-2020 03:57
Hello susmita
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report.
Regards
Sus
Posted 29-02-2020 21:11
Hello sandhya
Very nice
Thank you so much for this report
Yours
Susmita
Posted 26-02-2020 21:39
Hi Sandhya!
Well-written report on serious topic.
Through out human society, there are some invasion to human rights under the name of tradition.
Maybe it's our generation's duty to find what's right and make things better.
In addition to that, it seems as good idea to substitute plastic products for the sake of the environment.
Thanks for the great report!
Posted 13-09-2019 17:13
Hello sandhya sis
I hope you are fine,
Thank you for sharing about our culture in this platform.
Great!
Green cheers
Yours
Asmita Gaire
Posted 07-09-2019 12:28
Thank you so much Sweta Bhattarai for your Words.
Posted 07-09-2019 11:56
Great report Sandhya
Thanks for sharing such a necessory information
Posted 07-09-2019 00:11
Thank You so much Nazaha Amatullah for going through my report. Yes almost 90% of girl from south Asia don't speak about this.
Posted 05-09-2019 00:34
Thank you so much Nishan Kc for going through my report. It is quite different topic but its so true.
Posted 05-09-2019 00:32
Thank you so much prakriti Ghimire for your words.
Posted 05-09-2019 00:31
Hi, Sandhya
Hope you are doing good.
Very much informative report on the quite different issue. The report is well-explained and the ideas that this report present are so truthful.
Kind Regards,
Nishan kc
Posted 04-09-2019 23:40
Good report. Not much women can come straight-forward about these stuff in South Asia countries.
Posted 04-09-2019 23:11
Great report
Thanks for sharing wonderful information
Keep writing
Posted 04-09-2019 21:02
Thank you Rosa for your dedication going through my words since I joined this platform. Your feedback really inspires me. Definitely this is one of the most unseen and un spoked topic. So we should wisely work to make our period plastic free period.
Posted 04-09-2019 18:48
Thank you prashamsa Bhusal for your words
Posted 04-09-2019 18:46
Great Report Sandhya!!
Go green
Posted 04-09-2019 17:43
Hi Sandhya,
Yes, the message is pretty straight forward, as females, we should be more sensitive about what we use as it may harm the environment. I am so thankful that you published this report! I too want to join the movement so as to fight against the pollution of menstrual products, because it is essentially plastic.
Thank you sharing Sandhya,
Warm regards,
Rosa
Posted 04-09-2019 15:14
Hello Bal krishna dai,
Hope you are fine and doing great with your works. I would like to appricate you for going through my report and encouraging me ever.
Of course this is one of the most unseen part and mostly noone cares of this topic. But when I went through the data it gave me the furious feelings to speak against it and every documentary based on this has literally made me so depressed that I am also the contributer of pollution to this environment.
Thank you so much for your great words.
Green Cheers!!! save nature,
Posted 04-09-2019 13:26
Thank you Meena pandey for your words.
Posted 04-09-2019 13:21
Great report.
Keep on writing.
Posted 04-09-2019 12:33
This is the topic mostly noone cares. Your report gives a strong message so that we can change our thoughts, our habits. Recycle, Reuse and Reduce js the main key to save the nature.
Your report is very fruitful.
Cheers.
Posted 04-09-2019 10:26