nowdays use of condoms is very frequent due to aids and population control programmes. educated and urban women use sanitary napkins during periods. people use razors for shaving. i think millions of condoms, sanitary napkins and razors must be thrown in garbage everyday. i want to know are all these articles bio-degradable? how they are disposed with by the municipal corporations? do they affect our ecology in any way?
2007-02-03 02:14:32 · 8 answers · asked by dr friend 4 u 1 in Environment
This question has been in my mind for quite sometime. I don't think condoms are bio-degradable. In metros, we started off with segegating bio-degradable waste and non-bio-degradable waste. However, the scheme is left half completed. Similar is the case with the besleri bottles. Go visit the Ooty lake and you'll know what I am trying to say. The lake is filled with bottles which will take years to bio-degrade and mix with the earth. Yes surely our ecology is affected. We need to take it up seriously.
2007-02-03 02:21:19 · answer #1 · answered by ranjani raghavan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1] I am not sure about non-biodegradability of condoms but razor is for sure non-biodegradable. However, Sanitary napkins are bidegradable.
[2] They are disposed of after segregation followed by incineration or composting based on their biodegradability nature.
[3] Off course, they do affect our ecology as it comes under the per view of "undesirable change to the ecology: which is called pollution".
2007-02-04 18:04:11 · answer #2 · answered by mkmchaturvedi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right now they go out with house hold garbage and as you suspect can create problem.
In USA hospital, doctors office and certain other facilities are required to use services of certified company that specialise in the disposal of bio-materials, they burn them at high temperature and then dispose off or recycle them.
2007-02-03 02:48:57 · answer #3 · answered by minootoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well don't flush them for sure....all of that has to be screened out at a wastewater treatment plant and it really plays havoc with the pumping systems used there.
2007-02-03 04:25:58 · answer #4 · answered by salty_pearl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think they're incinerated together with all our rubbish in those plastic bags. who would untie our rubbish and search for used cdms.. or napkins..
2007-02-03 02:22:37 · answer #5 · answered by jon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pads are bio degradable, not sure about the others.
2007-02-03 02:22:02 · answer #6 · answered by GD-Fan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
using these typse of things give the coaching
contact
09443989101
2007-02-03 02:21:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they have to be recycled
2007-02-03 03:13:55 · answer #8 · answered by saianand j 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋