The Need Of The Hour - Sanitary Napkin Vending Machines

There are over 350+ million women and girls of reproductive age. Now, if all of them used sanitary napkins and disposed of them in the garbage, almost ninety billion cubic feet of landfill space would be needed just to accommodate their menstrual waste.

This puts an untenable demand on already overburdened landfills. Not to mention the disease-causing factors of open landfills that spread germs and disease in an air-borne – through flies and mosquitoes and water-borne – when these landfills leach into the waterways of the surrounding houses, ways.

Then multiply those number by the generations that have passed and the generations to come.

Solution to the future generations

Sanitary napkin vending machines are life-savers for these girls. Instead of feeling lost and confused or embarrassed, these girls now have access to sanitary napkins any time, any day.

As a start to this effort, WASH - water, sanitation and hygiene - a key issue of UN Sustainable Development Goal 6. As a part of this project, Sanitary Napkin Vending Machines and Sanitary Napkin Incinerators have been installed in high schools to improve the accessibility for women everywhere.