South Ayrshire Council Customer Services |
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On average your baby will need between 4000 and 6000 nappy changes until they are potty trained. If you choose to use disposable nappies, then this will be a significant cost to your family. Research shows that this will be between £488 and £732 per baby! However, if you choose to use a reusable cloth nappy, you will only need 25 – 30 nappies on average, which can cost as little as £185, depending on the type of nappy you use, including the washing! And, importantly real nappies can be used for second and subsequent children, making your cost savings even greater. Approximately 8 million nappies are thrown away in Britain every day, and that’s a lot of preventable rubbish heading straight for landfill sites. What’s more, we do not know how long it takes for the plastics in disposable nappies to decompose but it could take hundreds of years. If you are a disposable nappy using family, just think of your residual waste bin before it is emptied – how much of your rubbish is disposable nappies? And that’s just in your bin! How many other babies do you know in your family, your street and your local community?
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