Your baby will need about 4,500 nappy changes in 30 months
For this, 4 ½ trees are destroyed to keep one baby in disposable nappies.
One disposable nappy takes 200 to 500 years to biodegrade.
It takes a full cup of crude oil to produce the plastic for one disposable nappy.
Disposable Nappies contain paper pulp, plastics absorbent gel granules and chemical additives in the plastics and perfumes. All these chemicals and materials impact on your child and the environment.
An estimated 600,000 nappies are used every day in Ireland.
Most are tossed into household rubbish and nappies make up at least 4% of all household rubbish in Ireland
For a family with one baby, half of a typical waste bin will consist of disposable nappies. One baby creates 2.5 tonnes of nappy waste in 2 years.
94% of disposable nappies end up in landfill sites.
With washable nappies, you can save up to 50% of the costs (taking washing into account) and you will leave about 1 ton less waste.

For further information please contact: Limerick County Council's Environment Section at 061 49 62 64 or email: environ@limerickcoco.ie