Baby Basket Club

approximately 90-95% of babies use 27.4 billion single-use, plastic diapers every year. this generates 7.6 billion pounds of rubbish each year—enough waste to fill wembley stadium 15 times over, or stretch to the moon and back 9 times. every year. disposable diapers are the 3rd largest consumer item in landfills, and represent 30% of non-biodegradable waste. even though it may seem as if an individual child doesn’t contribute much to those numbers, babies do a lot of pooping. in fact, the average baby goes through 6-8 diapers a day. unless you practice elimination communication, your baby will use between 6,500–10,000 diapers before potty training around 30 months old, creating about 2000 pounds of rubbish over that time! that’s literally a ton of toxic waste. it takes approx. 500 years for disposable diapers to decompose when exposed to sunlight and air. since diapers are dumped into landfills, covered and not exposed to sun or air at all, nobody knows how many hundreds—or even tho