I took these two pictures at my house this weekend, March 2011. As you can see, the first picture is of a box of disposable baby diapers and the second picture shows a couple of those diapers. When my daughter was a baby, especially a newborn, it seemed like I was changing, throwing away, and buying more diapers all the time. Lucky for me she was fully potty trained by 21 months so I was done with diapers unusually early. Now, my sister and my nephew, who just turned 6 months, live with us and he uses about 5-7 diapers a day. That’s a lot of diapers and thus, a lot of garbage.
On average, a child will go through several thousand diapers from infancy to toddlerhood. Since disposable diapers are discarded after a single use, disposable diapers increase the burden on landfills by contributing a significant amount to the growing garbage problem. Specifically, an estimated 27.4 billion disposable diapers are used and thrown away each year in the US, resulting in 3.4 million tons of dirty diapers being added to landfills each year.
On average, a child will go through several thousand diapers from infancy to toddlerhood. Since disposable diapers are discarded after a single use, disposable diapers increase the burden on landfills by contributing a significant amount to the growing garbage problem. Specifically, an estimated 27.4 billion disposable diapers are used and thrown away each year in the US, resulting in 3.4 million tons of dirty diapers being added to landfills each year.
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