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New Delhi [India], June 6: World Environment Day, which falls on June 5, is being marked by PadCare, India’s first sanitary-pad recycling organisation, with an awareness campaign in Pune to focus attention on period plastic pollution. Billions of sanitary pads are thrown out in India each year, containing plastic and other non-organic components, which has caused an unknowing but serious environmental issue. These pads take up to 800 years to decompose, which results in more landfills, more pollution of oceans and more toxic emissions from incineration. Dealing directly with this matter, PadCare has organised an impressive public campaign. A volunteer…