<p>The increasing number of used sanitary napkins and diapers that end up with the pile of solid waste pose a grave threat to human health, as they carry disease-causing microorganisms. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Now, a local company has come up with an incinerator that promises to burn and dispose of them without smoke or ash.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The new incinerator uses water to smother the smoke - possibly toxic, given the <br />substances used in napkins and diapers - and dilutes the ash.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">At schools, hospitals</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This can be easily drained," said Nisha Nazre, founder of the company Zuci Fem Care Private Limited, who hopes to install the mini incinerators in BBMP-run schools and hospitals in 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Made in two categories - with eight- and 12-litre storage capacity and 5 KW or 2.5 KW of power - the machines are currently in the testing stage.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nazre launched the low-cost incinerators in March 2016 and installed them in BBMP-owned schools and hospitals at a cost of Rs 50 lakh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Sanitary pads and diapers need to be disposed of safely. It is appalling to see them lying around in the dumps. They are a source of infection," she pointed out.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BBMP estimates that the city generates 90 tonnes of sanitary pads and 60 tonnes of diapers a day. The piling waste has been burnt by three privately-managed incinerators, Sarfaraz Khan, the special commissioner at the city body, said.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">Lack of awareness</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lack of awareness about segregating them before handing them over to the pourakarmikas remains a huge challenge, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Educating the public <br />on segregation is vital because most of the times the sanitary pads are clubbed with the <br />dry waste and they don't reach the incinerators," Sarfaraz Khan said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The special commissioner said that Nazre demonstrated the new machine, which <br />the BBMP would procure after the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board approves it.</p>.<p class="byline">DH News Service</p>
<p>The increasing number of used sanitary napkins and diapers that end up with the pile of solid waste pose a grave threat to human health, as they carry disease-causing microorganisms. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Now, a local company has come up with an incinerator that promises to burn and dispose of them without smoke or ash.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The new incinerator uses water to smother the smoke - possibly toxic, given the <br />substances used in napkins and diapers - and dilutes the ash.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">At schools, hospitals</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This can be easily drained," said Nisha Nazre, founder of the company Zuci Fem Care Private Limited, who hopes to install the mini incinerators in BBMP-run schools and hospitals in 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Made in two categories - with eight- and 12-litre storage capacity and 5 KW or 2.5 KW of power - the machines are currently in the testing stage.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nazre launched the low-cost incinerators in March 2016 and installed them in BBMP-owned schools and hospitals at a cost of Rs 50 lakh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Sanitary pads and diapers need to be disposed of safely. It is appalling to see them lying around in the dumps. They are a source of infection," she pointed out.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BBMP estimates that the city generates 90 tonnes of sanitary pads and 60 tonnes of diapers a day. The piling waste has been burnt by three privately-managed incinerators, Sarfaraz Khan, the special commissioner at the city body, said.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">Lack of awareness</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lack of awareness about segregating them before handing them over to the pourakarmikas remains a huge challenge, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Educating the public <br />on segregation is vital because most of the times the sanitary pads are clubbed with the <br />dry waste and they don't reach the incinerators," Sarfaraz Khan said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The special commissioner said that Nazre demonstrated the new machine, which <br />the BBMP would procure after the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board approves it.</p>.<p class="byline">DH News Service</p>