Where does waste go?

What Happens To Your Waste?

Where does your rubbish go? In your bin. You transfer the rubbish from your bin to your wheely bin… the bin lorry comes and takes it away. Where does it go? Waste doesn’t just go away, it doesn’t disappear, it just goes somewhere else.

How Much Waste Is There?

Nappies are a necessity for babies. When using disposables it’s out of sight out of mind as the bin lorry drives away a weeks worth of used nappies and they are forgotten. Let’s say around 6 disposables a day are used in a household for a one year old. 6 x 7 is 42.

In the first three quarters (Jan to Sept) of 2020, there were 464,437 live births in England and Wales.

It all of those babies used 42 disposable nappies this week that would mean that around 19,506,354 disposable nappies would be sent to landfill in one week… I tried to multiply that by 52 to work out how many that would be in a year but my phone calculator didn’t like the sum.

Luckily not all of those children born will be in disposables as there are many cloth bum parents. But the figures still remain extremely high.

We also have to remember that each of those nappies takes 500 years to decompose.

How Can Cloth Nappies Make A Difference?

If every one of the 464,437 used just one cloth nappy a day in a week that would save 3,251,059 disposables from landfill.

Switching has never been easier with so much variety and so many styles of modern cloth nappies available. It can seem overwhelming but it really isn’t.

Feel free to get in touch for advice ❤️

*info on births from (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/articles/provisionalbirthsinenglandandwales/2020)