Little Butts Produce a Lot of Sh*t

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

Even for the littlest ones, toilet habits are important for our planet. Because even though their bottoms are still small, they produce a lot of shit!

Disposable diapers
A child who uses disposable diapers produces around 300 kilos of waste per year. In the Netherlands, this means a waste mountain of 140 million kilos per year. This is 8% of all residual waste from consumers. And that mountain of diapers is virtually impossible to recycle. Disposable diapers contain all sorts of things: wood pulp, all kinds of plastics and synthetic granules. And beware: even though disposable diapers are now collected in some municipalities, recycling hardly or never takes place.

Baby wipes
Diaper babies use a lot of baby wipes. You may not know it, but one standard pack of baby wipes contains 58 grams of plastic. That's 2 PET bottles! And it's not just the plastic packaging, the wipes themselves also contain plastic. Disposable plastic! Because unfortunately, many of those wipes are flushed down the toilet. That's how they end up in rivers and the sea via the sewer.

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

Early toilet training

(Source: The Pot Op )

Children are physically perfectly capable of being toilet trained at around 18 months, but parents are busy and disposable diapers make it easy for them. As a result, children have been toilet trained later and later in recent decades. In the Western world, the average is now 3 years. If we toilet train children earlier, we will save a mountain of dirty 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, a disposable diaper is very handy for the first year and a half. But why not a washable diaper? That is no longer 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 down the toilet.

Sustainable toilet paper and toilet paper spray
Toilet paper is much more sustainable than baby wipes or moist toilet paper, but toilet paper itself also has an environmental impact. Every day, around 270,000 trees are cut down for it. Therefore, use sustainably produced toilet paper as much as possible. At The Good Roll they make 100% tree-friendly toilet rolls. The rolls are made from European recycled paper. And it doesn't stop there. 50% of their net profit goes to the construction of toilets in Africa. In this way, they give many people access to clean toilets. 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 for your baby or toddler's bottom? Then use the environmentally friendly toilet paper spray Booty Buddy from The Good Roll . With this fine spray, wet wipes become redundant. The Booty Buddy is completely biodegradable and specially developed to protect the skin.

Enough ways to 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.