Aruna revolution is a company that is changing the face of menstrual products across the globe. Every year in North America alone, 20 billion menstrual products end up in landfills, where they breakdown into microplastics that poison the earth and the people on it. Aruna Revolution has created the first truly compostable menstrual pad, with an innovative manufacturing process that allows them to leverage useful waste prodcuts and create a product used by billions that will help stop the polluting of our planet, while saving the pad users themselves in the process.

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New Wave is produced by Snack Labs. It is narrated Taylor MacGillivary and written by Haeley DiRisio and Taylor MacGillivary. New Wave is edited by, Jeremie Saunders and Taylor MacGillivary from Snack Labs. Music and sound design is by Donovan Morgan. Find out more about Snack Labs at www.wearesnack.io