Disposable nappies and the environmental implications
Are Disposable nappies actually worse than cloth nappies?
Resources
How long until the resources have been depleted?
A child uses approximately 5500 from birth to toilet training (Nappy choice and the environment)
Effects on water quality?
complications of contaminated water?
Main topic
Effects on soil
how likely will viruses from feces, contaminate soil?
Carbon Emissions
Decomposing nappies release methane gases
Landfill
Decomposition time
Minimum estimate of 200 years (Pendry, Mewse, & Burgoyne, 2012)
Space
over 2 billion used nappies go into landfill sites in Australia each year (Lee, 2017)