“Period poverty” defined as lack of sanitary products & toilets to more than 500 million women globally.
Cover image credit: NIDISI, © Harrison Thane
-
We believe a distributed production using locally-abundant resources is key to alleviate period poverty and reduce plastic waste. Read more here.
-
Our core team has focused on producing pad materials using sisal using simple protocols. Read more about it here.
-
We’re building a team of researchers, entrepreneurs, tool builders, and educators to help find the right solutions toward alleviating period poverty. Read about our consortium here.
PlantPad
Can sustainable, distributed, local, open-source bio-manufacturing help?
Read more about our mission here.
We are bringing together people to develop and deploy materials for sustainable menstrual pad to those who need them.
Read more about this effort here.
PlantPad
If you’d like to get in touch with us with general inquires, please let us know via email. info.plantpad@gmail.com
If you’re interested in participating in the consortium, please read more about it here.