our WORK
Sustainability
We are on a mission
To remove 6.3 tons of period waste by 2030
With such a high global demand for menstrual products and an ever-increasing strain on the environment, we are on a quest to responsibility reduce this impact by creating our reusable cloth sanitary products, without sacrificing the quality and a lining with IS 5405 / 2019 specification for sanitary napkins.
Interventions to change behaviour, educate communities and improve consumer knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards safe and sustainable sanitary products.
Education on reducing the volume of waste generated, recycling practices, and on attitudes towards waste, has been shown to have a positive effect.
This is the responsibility of all, and not only of the user. Countries should be supported to develop and adopt routes to sustainable sanitary waste management.
Manage Damage Group - Jillian’s report on our sustainability and supply chain being undertaken in July 2025.
Earth Sisters have to date produced 25,000 reusables items removing 1,500,000 disposable pads from entering landfill (1 pad = 60 washes / 25k x 60 = 1,500,000) Wow!!!!
Earth Sisters Fiji has imported into Fiji 1.5 tons of specialty fabrics for manufacturer of our products.
Facts On Period Waste
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Corporate
Unlock The Power
of Corporate Sustainability
Successful companies understand that embracing sustainability and corporate social responsibility requires more than environmental consciousness. Organizations need engaged and informed employees at all levels to make meaningful investments in sustainable practices.
The introduction of reusable cloth sanitary pads to all who menstruate employees, helps your organization support gender equality and the environmental concepts in your workforce, foster a culture of sustainability, and equip female employees with the tools they need to make a difference at work and at home.
Achieving change in sustainability requires innovation. This is whereby introducing reusable cloth sanitary pads into the workforce prepares your company for the future in leadership, empowerment for your employees, who by this example, can thrive.
Reduce single use plastic sanitary products going landfill. The climate-related risks you are exposed to include, but are not restricted to, the physical risks from climate change and your employment practices of your employees and suppliers waste related to Menstrual Hygiene at work and removal, disposal of offsite.
Having a reliable sanitary pad to manage their menstruation that does not require additional household spending.
Provide educational mini workshops on the use of and sustainable benefits of reusable cloth sanitary pads, share accurate information on menstruation with rights-based approach. The resources shared in the workshop will enable the participants to teach other members of the community, creating a ripple effect improving the livelihoods of others.
Rethink, Reuse, Reduce, Refuse
Earth Sisters Fiji is committed to providing knowledge and informed choices which are better for you and the environment. We are unaware of any other NFP organisations based in Fiji undertaking similar work.
Provided NGO’s in the Pacific products since 2021
Event hosted by UNFPA, UNICEF, Medical Services Pacific, Ministry Youth, Sport, attended & donated 250 packs
Donated packs, distributed to women with disabilities, Vanuatu
Held 2 workshops Nadi
Presentation, 80 school students Nadi
2-day workshop sponsored by UNFPA Suva, Medical Services Pacific, Earth Sisters Fiji
Launch “Being Prepared for your Period Workbook”
Manufactured circa 25,000 items imported 1.5 tons of fabrics
Climate change poses several challenges to
menstrual hygiene.
Our aims are:
Introduce women to reusable sanitary pad packs
Education using “Being Prepared for your Period” workbook
Empower women with Menstrual Hygiene Management security
Promote Menstrual Hygiene sustainable practices
Becoming advocates to other community members on sustainable MHM
The Ripple Effect: Working Together
Experience shows that communities who work together will benefit more when organisations work together effectively.
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The women in communities who have nurtured and fostered your now employees, villages your guest visit for a grass roots experience are the women and girls who will benefit from your Corporate Sustainability Involvement and us working together.
Mutually beneficial partnerships, based on shared values, are critical in helping us achieve our mission of a confident, thriving & sustainable Fiji.
In partnering with Earth Sisters Fiji “Corporate Sustainability Program”, your business will be supporting families to lift themselves out of period poverty, build sustainable practices, and fight the effects of the climate crisis.
Working together alongside the most marginalised females, people living with disabilities, empowers women to grow in MHM confidence and in greater equality.
When you empower women, you empower the whole community.
Every project begins with workshops to help women to take a bigger part in their MHM and reduce their period waste products.
In a lifetime, a single person who menstruates will use somewhere between 5,000 and 15,000 pads and tampons and is expected to throw away roughly 400 pounds (180kgs) of period product packaging
In the US, around 12 billion pads and 7 billion tampons are thrown out every year and a year’s worth of disposable period products leaves a carbon footprint equivalent to 5.3 kilograms (nearly 12 pounds) of CO2
Tampons, pads, and panty liners, their packaging, and wrapping generate more than 200,000 metric tons of waste annually. What’s more, plastic and non-compostable materials in period products can take 500 to 800 years to decompose
*https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/best-period-products-for-the-environment/
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It Starts With Education
Eradicate period poverty and
end age old taboos
around menstruation with education
We believe that talking about periods openly and without embarrassment is essential. After all, without menstruation there is not creation! This natural process affects about half of the population, and it's something we should all be comfortable talking about. Everyone can benefit from understanding it better.
Earth Sisters Fiji is committed to providing knowledge allowing informed choices which are better for you and the environment. We are committed to building a portal of resources accessible to everyone with our work in the Pacific.
Knowledge is power. Being prepared for your Period workbook expands and improves menstrual health knowledge, tackles stigma, taboo and misinformation. We are investing in developing sustainable menstrual products.
Introduce to all that menstruate reusable sanitary pad packs
Education using Being Prepared for your Period workbook
Empower women with Menstrual Hygiene Management
Security
Promote Menstrual Hygiene sustainable practices!
Becoming advocates to other community members on sustainable MHM
