Non-biodegradable sanitary products add a significant amount of plastic waste to the environment. This has hazardous effects not only on global warming but also on animal health both on land and in water as well as resource depletion.

The numbers are shocking from the menstruation perspective and the effect of menstruating products on our environment is estimated that approximately 121 million women dispose of around eight sanitary napkins per menstrual cycle. This computes that around 12.3 billion disposable pads are added to landfills annually! Each woman generates around 120kg of plastic waste during her menstruating years. To tackle this issue there needs to be a system in place to tackle menstruation waste especially used sanitary plastic pads.