India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia
Published on India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia (http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in)

Home > News > Low cost sanitary napkins from knitwear waste > Low cost sanitary napkins from knitwear waste

Low cost sanitary napkins from knitwear waste [1]

Rural women in the state can now procure quality sanitary napkins, as the Centre has allotted Punjab a project to use hosiery waste from the textile hub of Ludhiana to make low-cost sanitary napkins for the women.

The project, to be executed by the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST), will not only take care of the huge amounts of knitwear waste that the units find difficult

Publication Date: 
21/06/2011
Indian Express (Chandigarh) [2]
Tags:
Solid Waste [3], Women [4], Sanitation [5], Health Care [6], Ludhiana (D) [7], Science And Technology [8]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

Technology Partners: MimirTech


India Environment Portal by Centre for Science and Environment is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.


Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/low-cost-sanitary-napkins-knitwear-waste

Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/low-cost-sanitary-napkins-knitwear-waste
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/indian-express-chandigarh
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/solid-waste
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/women
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sanitation
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-care
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ludhiana-d
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/science-and-technology