The production of disposable diapers consumes an inordinate amount of resources and energy adding 2.8 billion tons of urine, feces, plastic and paper to landfills annually. Besides filling dwindling landfill space, disposable diapers endanger health and the environment. The potential for disease to spread via ground water has also been cited.

The average disposable wearing baby will create two tons of bio-hazardous waste that will sit in a landfill for hundreds of years.
It takes a Billion trees every year to produce disposable diapers for the Earths’ children.