Despite advertising hinged on 'change'
and girls growing wings, I still see women – some of them educated
women in metros – who are embarrased about taking a used (wrapped
up) sanitary napkin to the dustbin. I've seen women concealing it in
the folds of their dupatta or saree pallu. I've talked to women in
small towns who don't throw sanitary napkins in their dustbin at
home; they walk instead to the end of the lane, and drop them off on
a huge anonymous garbage dump – preferably very early in the
morning so nobody sees them. We still do not have a sensible disposal
system.
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