Little butts also produce a lot of sh*t

Disposable diapers and wipes are bad for the environment. Solutions: potty train your child early and use products such as sustainable toilet paper and toilet paper spray.

Even for little ones, toilet habits are important for our earth. Because even though their buttocks are tiny, they produce a lot of shit!

Disposable diapers A baby using disposable diapers produces about 300 kilos of waste per year. In the Netherlands, that means 140 million pounds of waste every year. This is 8% of all consumer residual waste. And that mountain of diapers is virtually impossible to recycle. Disposable diapers contain all kinds of things: wood pulp, all kinds of plastics and synthetic granules. And beware: even though disposable diapers are now collected in some municipalities, recycling doesn't happen much, if at all.

Diaper wipes Diaper kids use a lot of diaper wipes. You may not have known it, but one standard pack of wipes contains 58 grams of plastic. That's 2 PET bottles! And it's not just the plastic packaging, the wipes themselves contain plastic as well. Disposable plastic! Unfortunately, many of these wipes are flushed down the toilet. They end up in rivers and the sea.

Pretty heavy shit for our beautiful earth. But fortunately there are solutions.

Becoming potty-trained early

(Source: The Pot On)

Little ones are physically fine to potty train around 18 months, but parents are busy and the disposable diaper makes it easy for them. As a result, children are becoming potty-trained later and later in recent decades. In the Western world, the average is now 3 years. If we potty train children earlier, it will save a mountain of polluting diapers.

How do you potty train a child early? At De Pot Op they have found a solution. The Pot Op app helps parents and children with potty training. With a simple step-by-step process and support from experts and other parents, a child can be potty trained from 18 months.

Washable diapers and washable wipes Of course, disposable diapers are very convenient for the first year and a half. But why not a washable diaper? This has long since ceased to be a cloth and a safety pin. Nowadays they have trendy prints and handy snaps or Velcro. And with an insert you can flush the contents right down the toilet.

Sustainable toilet paper and toilet paper spray Toilet paper is much more sustainable than wipes or wet toilet paper, but even toilet paper itself has an environmental impact. Every day some 270,00 trees are cut down for it. So use sustainably produced toilet paper whenever possible. At The Good Roll, they make 100% tree-friendly toilet rolls. The rolls are made from European recycled paper.

The rolls are made from European recycled paper. And it doesn't stop there. 50% of their net profit goes to building toilets in Africa. In this way they give many people access to clean toilets. So toilet paper that is not only good for the environment, but also contributes to a cleaner world for more people.

And is toilet paper still a bit rough on the bottom of your baby or toddler? Then use the eco-friendly toilet paper spray Booty Buddy from The Good Roll. With this fine spray, wet wipes become unnecessary. The Booty Buddy is completely biodegradable and specially designed to protect the skin.

So plenty of ways you can contribute to a greener world even from a young age!

Want to get started yourself? Visit www.depotop.nu and www.thegoodroll.nl for more information.