• 8 million nappies are thrown away every day in the UK, that adds up to 3 billion each year
• 90% go to landfill
• Each year 400,000 tonnes of waste (the weight of 32 DoubleDecker buses) is sent to landfill
• Nappies take up to 500 years to decompose
• Nappies make up 2-3% of household waste
• Nappies are single use plastics
• Up to 50% of a disposable nappy is plastic
• Using the average of 4.16 nappies used per day, and an average nappy weight of 38.6g, an average child will use 146.5kg of nappies over two and a half years.
• For every month a child stays in nappies another 124 nappies end up in landfill. That’s £40 worth!
• With every nappy change baby wipes are also used. These contain plastic and end up in landfill, or worse still polluting rivers and seas and impacting on marine life.
• Wrapping nappies in plastic nappy sacks further increases plastic content going to landfill.
