Pad pollution: How Nepal successfully adopted the use of sanitary pads but failed in disposal

Perhaps you are reading or hearing ‘pad pollution’ for the first time! Perhaps you are about to read an article that discourages you from using sanitary pads for the first time!

Topics of menstrual hygiene have always been taboo in Nepali society. Likewise, issues of environmental woes are discussed once in a blue moon, either on Environment Day or when pollution spikes out of the charts. But, what about discussions on pad pollution? Almost never. It is never a thought, never a point of discussion.