Social entrepreneurship driven startup, PadCare Labs has developed the world’s first smokeless sanitary napkin disposal and recycling solution to solve the unhygienic, pollution-causing, and silent issue of sanitary napkin disposal at the source. The solution includes patent-pending innovation called PadCare which works on the principle of the chemo-mechanical method.
Explaining the problem and its answer, Ajinkya Dhariya, CEO, PadCare Labs, says, “When segregated at source, sanitary pads are burned in an incinerator at 800 degree Celsius for effective disposal. This causes a lot of pollution and consumes a lot of energy as well. We have developed technology by combining chemical, mechanical and electrical innovations that can ensure smokeless disposal of sanitary pads. The pads are broken down, sterilized, deodorized and segregated into cellulose and plastic pellets.”
PadCare is a centralized processing unit that can handle 1,500 pads in a day and provides 5D’s- that are disinfection, Deodorization, Decolorization, Disintegration and Deactivation of a super absorbent polymer. The process includes organic consumables called Cytoslay – which provides these properties instantly.
CytoSlay provides up to 6 logs of bacterial reduction, and as per company, is tested as per World Health Organization standard. From PadCare, segregated, sterilized cellulose-plastic comes as output. Interestingly it can be recycled for different applications including packaging material, plastic bricks and RDF pallets.
