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Feminine care forcampuses

Feminine-care service for universities & colleges is a scheduled washroom program, dispensers, sanitary disposal and restocking, from $1–3 per employee per year in product cost. Residences, lecture halls, athletics and labs. One campus is five facility types wearing one badge, with demand that vanishes every summer.

How service runs for universities & colleges

Campus demand runs on the academic calendar at building-level granularity: libraries spike at exams, residences follow term dates, athletic facilities peak in January. Student unions and equity offices are often the program's sponsors, and procurement expects sustainability documentation. The service answer is per-building cadences inside one campus contract, never one frequency across a campus.

Sector need

Five building types, one contract

Athletics washrooms fill weekly; archives washrooms barely at all. Frequencies are set per building, priced as one campus agreement. The library adds exam-period spikes, residences follow move-in weekends, and the stadium runs on the events calendar, three more curves the schedule absorbs because frequency is a per-building setting, not a campus constant.

Mandate fit

Student-equity commitments

Most campuses have adopted menstrual-equity commitments through student-union agreements or administration policy. We supply to the commitment and document delivery. Those commitments usually name washroom availability explicitly, which makes the service log the compliance evidence the student union asks to see. A program that runs on our route answers that request with an export.

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Term-time scheduling

Weekly term-time service in high-traffic buildings, high-capacity units in athletics and residence, automatic summer pause. Reading week and exam periods shift traffic between buildings rather than reducing it. The library gains what the lecture halls lose. So the calendar moves visits across campus instead of cutting them.

Reporting

Per-building cost centres

Service logs mapped to your building codes and cost centres, so facilities accounting reconciles without manual re-keying. Finance offices reconcile against building codes, not vendor invoices, so the log carries your codes from day one. Cost-per-building reporting for the sustainability office comes from the same export.

What the paperwork has to show

Whoever asks. A labour affairs officer, an accreditation surveyor, a tenant auditing CAM charges. The question is the same: can you show the routine, not just the result. Four artifacts answer it. Which stalls carry a covered receptacle, including accessible and single-occupancy rooms. The named service schedule per washroom. Dated visit records with fill levels, so an isolated overflow reads as an exception rather than the pattern. And the provider's downstream handling statement for the collected waste. A contracted route generates all four automatically; informal top-up arrangements generate none of them, and they cannot be reconstructed after a complaint lands.

Setting up a program for universities & colleges

Rollout starts with a walked washroom audit, because floor plans undercount: single-occupancy and accessible rooms get missed, and the count is the bill of materials. Dispensers and covered bins then go in during one pass per building, and the service schedule starts the same week. The gap between install and first restock is where programs stumble. Weeks three to eight are the measurement window: every visit logs consumption per washroom, and by week eight real usage replaces the launch estimate, usually tightening two or three washrooms and relaxing several others. Budget lands near $1–3 per employee per year in product, with dispensers a one-time item and service priced per bin per visit.

University campus building corridor with washroom signage