Disposable absorbent hygiene products like diapers, pads and tampons are an essential part of people’s everyday lives. Disposable products offer convenient and safe access to personal hygiene, supporting busy lifestyles.
While disposability creates convenience and accessibility, it creates sustainability challenges with increased material consumption and waste. Unfortunately, there are few alternatives that match current convenience and accessibility while improving on sustainability.
Let’s improve the sustainability of these products and re-connect them back to nature by creating “regenerative hygiene” solutions. This means focusing on hygiene solutions that are designed with their impact to nature in mind. Ideally, most or all of the materials in the products come from nature and can be returned to nature at the end of product’s lifecycle to restore and regenerate natural resources.
For this challenge, we’d like you to select one of the types of hygiene occasions:
- Diapering
- Menstrual hygiene
1) For your chosen hygiene occasion (diapering or menstrual hygiene), propose a product based on this regenerative hygiene concept to improve its sustainability while keeping the consumer benefits in mind.
- What specific product are you proposing? (i.e. diaper, menstrual pad, or something new)
- What is your product made from?
- What does it look like? What might be different from current products?
- What makes it regenerative? (i.e. explain how it comes from nature & returns to nature after use)
2) Explain the role of the user of the product and others to return your proposed product back to nature after use
- What steps would the consumer take in their home (and possibly out of home) to start the process of returning the product to nature?
- What additional actions or services might be necessary following user disposal to complete the process of returning the product to nature?
Awards:- $1,600
Deadline:- 18-12-2024
