Introducing a new
era of hygiene with
PadCare’s sanitary pad
recycling solution
PadCare is an automated hygiene management system that generates harmless, recyclable output out of used sanitary napkins.
Through multi-step mechanics, it breaks down absorbent sanitary waste into two by-products - cellulose and plastic.
Processes 3000 pads a day
Smokeless and silent
Anti-rust and stainless steel body
MPCB and NABL Certified
Female privacy sensitive
Enables carbon-negative menstruation
Enables 5 SDGs compliance
Fosters gender equality
Minimum staff training required
5 years warranty and easy maintenance
3 phase power supply, 0.5kWH system
What happens to the input
1. Disintegration
2. Disinfection
3. Decolorization
4. Deodorization
5. Deactivation
What happens to the output
Once the waste is processed in the Central Processing Unit where it goes through a fully mechanized 5D process to finally be broken down into two by-products - cellulose and plastic, these can be utilized to make other products such as tables, pots etc.
PadCare Bin is a part of a larger preprogrammed hygiene management system that generates harmless, recyclable output out of used sanitary napkins.
It is inserted in individual washroom cubicles where women can privately and safely dump their used menstrual absorbents.
Completely touch-free
Capacity of 30 pads
Cloud connected for volume tracking
Works on vapour-phase technology
Protects from vaginal infections
Privacy sensitive
Enables carbon-negative menstruation
Enables SDGs compliance
Easy to use 1-step process
Sleek PP and ABS body
Battery-powered
Free and quick maintenance
What happens to the input
Bins are embedded with our patent-pending PadCare Vap technology which enables pathogenic lock. It also eliminates all stinkiness and bad odors generated by the waste, creating an overall hygienic, safe, and pleasant washroom experience for women.
What happens to the output
When the bin is close to brimming (30 pads max), the waste is processed in the Central Processing Unit where it goes through a fully mechanized 5D process to finally be broken down into two by-products - cellulose and plastic. This output can further be utilized for making objects like pots, tables, etc.
Hygiene Roadmap
Padcare is not about a product that solves a short term problem, it’s a holistic solution that encompasses a roadmap of commitment for menstrual hygiene management.
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Sanitary waste
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Menstrual hygiene
awareness programs
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Monthly Impact
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Notable work
Case Studies
Transforming experiences with TI Bus
Enhancing stakeholder engagement with SBI
Venture Centure
Empowering changemakers at Venture Centre
Venture Center is a Pune-based technology business incubator hosted by the CSIR-National Chemical laboratory. It nucleates and nurtures early-stage R & D intensive science-based startups by offering state-of-the-art incubation, mentoring, and research facilities.
Home to 65+ resident startups, Venture Centre is India’s largest science business incubator and was selected by the Asian Association of Business Incubation (AABI) for its “Incubator of the Year” Award, 2018. Venture Center has also received the National Award for Technology Business Incubation 2015 from the President of India.
Venture Centre aims to enable and empower aspiring scientists and engineers to pursue futuristic innovation with an entrepreneurial objective.
They offer products and services exploiting expertise in the areas of materials, chemicals, biological sciences and engineering and leverage the scientific and engineering competencies of the institutions in the country.
KEY CHALLENGES
1.
Continual issue of toilet clogging because pads are flushed down the toilets.
2.
Waste management strategy doesn’t align with UN’s sustainability goals.
3.
Maintenance staff and janitors feeling unsafe and degraded, having to deal with sanitary wastewith little protective gear.
4.
Gap in contributing to a circular economy.
APPROACH
8 PadCare bins were installed in the female-exclusive public washrooms inside Venture Centre campus. With a footfall of over 150 women per day, the bins were being used frequently for private and comfortable pad disposal. Our waste collecting partner emptied the bins on a weekly basis and transported them to the Central Processing Unit of the city.
Through the 5D process, the pads were converted into harmless, reusable cellulose and plastic.
This output was handed over to the vendors that made pots out of it.
IMPACT
By partnering with PadCare, Venture Centre was able to align their initiative with UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
01
SDG 3
Good health and well-being
Better informed menstrual choices and reduction in infections in women and waste-pickers.
02
SDG 5
Gender equality
Privacy-sensitive technology enables women to be more in charge of their bodies.
03
SDG 6
Wash
Availability of a safe, touch less and individualistic sanitary pad disposal machine.
04
SDG 13
Climate action
Termination of practices of incineration, burial, flushing and open dumping of sanitary waste.
- Weekly beneficiaries
100+
- Pads recycled
42+
- Carbon emissions saved
11.76 kg
- Reduction in UTI cases
82%
- Kgs of material recovered
1.26 kg per week
- Amount of meter cube area saved from landfill
25.2 Litre
FINAL WORD
In bigger institutions where the footfall is multicultural, it is hard to develop and maintain a long-term waste management strategy that aligns with UN’s sustainability goals. Through PadCare, VC was able to not only offer a cleaner, safer lavatory experience to its women, but also make its maintenance staff feel more dignified about their job.
Dr. Premnath Venugopalan
- Director, Venture Centre
Padcare's proprietary technology for processing sanitary waste leverages multi-disciplinary capabilities to come up with solutions aligned to the needsand preferences of business customers. VC found this integration to solve a very pressing problem of society extremely interesting. The enthusiasm, creativity and resourcefulness of the team behind padcare also convinced VC to support the company.
Ti Bus
Transforming experiences with TI Bus
Ti is a public sanitation initiative by entrepreneurs Ulka Sadalkar and Rajeev Kher launched in 2016 in Pune, India. They have refurbished scrapped public buses into clean and well facilitated public toilets exclusively for women and have placed them at different high footfall spots in Pune.
Inaccessible or ill-maintained public toilets in India have been a brooding inconvenience for decades, and more so for women. Even in urgent situations, many refrain from using a public toilet because of the unbearable smell and overwhelming filth, and sometimes even lack of functional taps and flushes.
Ti’s well-lit, well-maintained and technologically advance public toilets are an initiative to solve that problem, and goes well beyond just providing women with a hygienic washroom experience.
Each bus has western toilets, Indian toilets, a diaper changing station, sanitary napkins vending machine, essential toiletries. They’re solar powered and also have LED screens that display educational videos about female hygiene and a digital feedback panel. One toilet receives an average of 150 ladies per day.
Ti was initiated by 3S – a division of SaraPlast Pvt. Ltd. along with Pune Municipal Corporation and their CSR partner -Indus Towers Limited.
KEY CHALLENGES
1.
Unavailability of dedicated sanitary napkin collection bins that enable source-level segregation of harmful sanitary waste.
2.
Continual issue of toilet clogging because pads are flushed down the toilets.
3.
Gap in aligning with UN’s sustainability goals.
4.
Soiled sanitary pads being piled up in the cubicles, sometimes even unwrapped.
5.
Maintenance staff and janitors feeling unsafe and degraded, having to deal with sanitary waste with little protective gear.
APPROACH
4 PadCare bins were installed in Ti buses at different locations. With a footfall of over 150 women per day, the bins were being used frequently for private and comfortable pad disposal. Our waste collecting partner emptied the bins on a weekly basis and transported them to the Central Processing Unit of the city.
Through the 5D process, the pads were converted into harmless, reusable cellulose and plastic.
This output was handed over to the vendors that made pots out of it.
IMPACT
By partnering with PadCare, Ti was able to align their initiative with SDG 3, 6, 11 and 13.
01
SDG 3
Good health and well-being
Better informed menstrual choices and reduction in infections in women and waste-pickers.
02
SDG 5
Gender equality
Privacy-sensitive technology enables women to be more in charge of their bodies.
03
SDG 6
Wash
Availability of a safe, touch less and individualistic sanitary pad disposal machine.
04
SDG 13
Climate action
Termination of practices of incineration, burial, flushing and open dumping of sanitary waste.
- Weekly beneficiaries
350+
- Pads recycled
147+
- Carbon emissions saved
41.16 kg
- Reduction in UTI cases
77%
- Kgs of material recovered
4.41 kg per week
- Amount of meter cube area saved from landfill
88.2 Litre
FINAL WORD
Clean public toilets are integral to the Swachh Bharat movement and for Pune’s Smart City initiative. “Ti” which translates to “she or her” in Marathi, is taking the idea of a public toilet two steps ahead.
The availability of PadCare bins in Ti buses made women feel much safer in using the lavatories – physically and psychologically. It also enhanced the hygiene inside the cubicles and made the maintenance staff feel more dignified about their job.
Ulka Sadalkar
- Co-founder of Saraplast
There were four bins set up in different toilets on the buses. It was such a good system as it produced no odour and blended well with the rest of the bathroom. It did not occupy much space, and women found it very comfortable to drop their sanitary pads discreetly.
Industrial Training Institute, Pune
Leveraging the power of Education at ITI
ITI or the Industrial Training Institute is post-secondary school in Pune, India constituted under Directorate General of Training, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Union Government that provides training to students in various industrial trades over a period of 6 months to 2 years.
It is maintained under the umbrella of The Department of Technical Education which was first established in 1948.
ITI aims not only to ensure a steady supply of skilled workers in different industries but also to raise the quality & quantity of industrial production by systematic and cordial training of the workers. Equipping the youth with education, one student at a time, ITI envisions to combat unemployment in the country.
KEY CHALLENGES
1.
Dreadful spread of UTIs in the female students.
2.
Constant complaints of littered washrooms and bad odors generated by menstrual waste.
3.
Lack of menstrual health awareness in the students fostering a culture of unhealthy practices and uninformed choices during periods.
4.
Constant complaints of littered washrooms and bad odors generated by menstrual waste.
APPROACH
40 PadCare bins were installed in the female-exclusive public washrooms across ITI Co-ed and ITI Girls campuses in Pune, India. With a footfall of over 400 women per day, the bins were being used frequently for private and comfortable pad disposal. Our waste collecting partner emptied the bins on a weekly basis and transported them to the Central Processing Unit of the city.
Through the 5D process, the pads were converted into harmless, reusable cellulose and plastic.
This output was handed over to the vendors that made pots out of it.
Apart from the bins, ITI students were also graced with a 2-day on-campus menstrual awareness camp where they were taught about safe and hygienic menstrual practices, impact of menstrual waste on the environment, and different kinds of green menstruation solutions.
IMPACT
By partnering with PadCare, ITI was able to align their waste management strategy with UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
01
SDG 3
Good health and well-being
Better informed menstrual choices and reduction in infections in women and waste-pickers.
02
SDG 5
Gender equality
Privacy-sensitive technology enables women to be more in charge of their bodies.
03
SDG 6
Wash
Availability of a safe, touch less and individualistic sanitary pad disposal machine.
04
SDG 13
Climate action
Termination of practices of incineration, burial, flushing and open dumping of sanitary waste.
- Weekly beneficiaries
6000+
- Pads recycled
126+
- Carbon emissions saved
35.28 kg
- Reduction in UTI cases
76%
- Kgs of material recovered
3.78 kg per week
- Amount of meter cube area saved from landfill
75.6 Litre
FINAL WORD
ITI is an institute where the major student population arrives from a rural and remote residence, where menstrual issues are considered a taboo. Students are hesitant to talk about their period health and lavatory experiences. Lack of conversation leads to even bigger problems like spread of UTIs.
With the availability of PadCare Bin inside the campus toilets as well as interactive awareness programs, both male and female students have become more comfortable in talking about their personal hygiene biases and have a less restrictive perspective about safe absorbent usage and practices.
Female students also feel more comfortable coming to the college during their periods. Now, it’s a growing culture of safety, hygiene and a sense of community in dismantling taboos.
State Bank of India
Enhancing stakeholder engagement with SBI
State Bank of India (SBI) is a nationalized Indian bank headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is the 43rd largest bank in the world and the largest bank in India with a handsome market share of 23%. It held the 221st rank in the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations of 2020, being the only Indian bank to make it to the list.
It has historical roots laid in the first decade of the 19 th century. Today, SBI has over 24,000 functional branches across India and 191 overseas offices spread over 36 countries. Among all Indian banks, it has the widest presence in foreign markets.
SBI has consistently endeavored to create better value for its stakeholders, and enhance its performance across environmental, social, and administrative responsibilities. Theirs is a responsible economic growth based on low-carbon economy.
KEY CHALLENGES
1.
Constant complaints of littered washrooms and bad odors generated by menstrual waste.
2.
Lack of privacy for women caused by unavailability of safe disposable solutions.
3.
Gender disparity caused due to lack of hygienic and safe lavatory experiences.
4.
Continual issue of toilet clogging because pads are flushed down the toilets.
APPROACH
4 PadCare bins were installed in Ti buses at different locations. With a footfall of over 150 women per day, the bins were being used frequently for private and comfortable pad disposal. Our waste collecting partner emptied the bins on a weekly basis and transported them to the Central Processing Unit of the city.
Through the 5D process, the pads were converted into harmless, reusable cellulose and plastic.
This output was handed over to the vendors that made pots out of it.
Apart from the bins, SBI staff was also graced with a 2-day on-campus menstrual awareness camp where they we talked about safe and hygienic menstrual practices, impact of menstrual waste on the environment, and different kinds of green menstruation solutions.
IMPACT
By partnering with PadCare, SBI was able to align their waste management strategy with UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
01
SDG 3
Good health and well-being
Better informed menstrual choices and reduction in infections in women and waste-pickers.
02
SDG 5
Gender equality
Privacy-sensitive technology enables women to be more in charge of their bodies.
03
SDG 6
Wash
Availability of a safe, touch less and individualistic sanitary pad disposal machine.
04
SDG 13
Climate action
Termination of practices of incineration, burial, flushing and open dumping of sanitary waste.
- Weekly beneficiaries
600+
- Pads recycled
252+
- Carbon emissions saved
70.56 kg
- Reduction in UTI cases
62%
- Kgs of material recovered
7.56 kg per week
- Amount of meter cube area saved from landfill
151.2 Litre
FINAL WORD
When a government body takes a step in the direction of climate action and feminine safety, it sets a benchmark for all the citizens and stakeholders. With PadCare’s futuristic hygiene management solution, SBI was able to create a safer and more holistic environment for its female employees as well as its waste management staff. It also helped them create a social impact and enhanced their overall CSR objective.
We aim to rebuild the way people experience washrooms. PadCare is a futuristic and eco-friendly menstrual hygiene disposal solution centred around the dignity of womanhood. Become a subscriber to share our vision.
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