Did you know that most brands of pull ups cost around $1.25 per night, which adds up to over $37 a month!!!
The sooner you can get your children out of disposible nappies, the better for them and the environment.
Disposables and biodegradability
A baby will need up to 6000 nappy changes for the first two and half years. Around a million nappies are thrown into landfills every day in New Zealand. (Based on 145,000 children under two and half in NZ using 6-7 disposables per day). In 2003 1.9% of all domestic waste was made up of "nappies” (SWAP data). Dealing with nappy waste costs individual local authorities tens of thousands of dollars a year and the decomposing material in landfill creates methane gas which is a major contributor to global warming. In New Zealand currently twenty-two per cent of landfills (13 sites) collect gas, however only 5-6 sites are using the gas to generate electricity. The dark and dry conditions in landfills are designed not to assist decomposition.
www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/waste/special/nappies
www.zerowaste.co.nz/default,507.sm
