CONSUMER METER. A burning answer

Updated - January 24, 2018 at 05:58 PM.

Tackling both hygiene and environmental pollution, Thebetterindia.com features a sanitary pad disposer that has been fabricated in the drought-prone Pabal region, 70km from Pune. Designed and tested at the MIT, Massachusetts-supported Fab Lab at the Vigyan Ashram in the village, the machine converts used napkins into ash in six to eight minutes. Now that tackles a problem that stares the country in the face but has never been addressed.

Published on February 13, 2015 15:53