Through his nonprofit, Ajume Wingo, CU Boulder associate professor of philosophy, is providing sanitary pads and menstrual education in his home country, Cameroon Several years ago, Ajume Wingo was ...

They're easy to use and good for the environment. These new additions to the scene are loved for freeing people with periods from bulky pads and the sometimes uncomfortable task of inserting a tampon.

Not long ago, University of Utah assistant professor Jeff Bates was contacted by SHEVA, a nonprofit advocacy group for women and girls in Guatemala. The group was seeking eco-friendly feminine hygiene ...

Scientist Soumya Swaminathan released a report on World Environment Day on June 5 about the use of menstrual cups -- a method for managing menstrual hygiene and for reducing the generation of total ...

What began as a class project at MIT has taken a life of its own in India as a full-on startup, with the aim of bringing one million affordable, biodegradable, sanitary pads -- made of banana fiber -- ...

An curved arrow pointing right. One in four women in India don't have the supplies they need for their period. Saathi Pads is turning farm waste into biodegradable pads that could prevent the ...

Most sanitary pads available for African women and girls are relatively expensive and classified as single-use plastics, which means some take hundreds of years to decompose. To help tackle this ...

In a casual conversation, researcher Pooja Singh and two of her colleagues were discussing the idea of developing biodegradable sanitary pads and started to contemplate what raw materials to use.

In Brazil, University of Minnesota graduate student Karla Godoy da Costa Lima said many women feel unseen in society. Growing up in a favela in Pernambuco, Brazil, Godoy da Costa Lima said societal ...

Living sustainably is difficult and confusing. Being a conscious consumer comes with a variety of challenges - from trying to reduce household energy use, to consider the item’s life expectancy and ...