I read some interesting statistics the other day as it pertains to diapers in Whole Living Magazine.
Here is what I learned…
95% of parents in the U.S. use disposable diapers;18 BILLION disposable diapers are sent to American landfills every year;Every baby will use approximately 8,000 diapers before they are potty trained;andIt takes at least 500 years for a disposable diaper to break down.Pretty shocking if you ask me. Maybe we should think about going back and using cloth diapers BUT then there is a flip side to that too. Washing 1 load of cloth diapers is equivalent to 35 flushes of the toilet. I guess there is no simple solution here. The numbers are mind boggling.
By the time our kids are grown they will have to figure out a way to deal with all the disposable diapers and plastic bottles in our landfills,certainly not an easy task!
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