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Shi🍄take Diapers
Capturing COpoo One Diaper at a Time
The Problem Our Product Addresses
The evolution from cloth diapers to disposable diapers benefit humans in the short term, allowing babies to stay cleaner and healthier, while also loosening the workload on mothers. However, this "improvement" has a negative impact on the environment.
We have been benefitting from many products that harm the environment for too long, and are on a path that is leading to extinction, unless we change.
Disposable Diaper Life
Production
Factories that make disposable diapers emit a lot of carbon, a greenhouse gas, into the air. These factories contribute to climate change, while trying to produce the plastics and fibers required.
Use
Disposable diapers are bought from the store for a baby to use! This portion of a diapers life is the purpose of its production. However, a lot of diapers have to be used per day to keep the baby clean and tidy.
Disposal
After being used and thrown out, the diaper ends up in a landfill. Living the rest of its 500 year life to secrete methane gas, yet another greenhouse gas. This contributes to climate change as well.
Pollution
The amount of air pollution that disposable diapers cause outweighs the actual period of time where the diaper is in use. The average baby goes through 8-12 disposable diapers a day, 1,800 diapers a year. Now imagine that number, multiplied by the vast majority of babies on Earth.
In 2016, in the United States, it was estimated that 20 billion diapers were ending up in landfills annually, accounting for almost 3.5 million tons of waste. Waste which will decompose over the course of 500 years.
Climate
Change
Climate change is caused by many factors, pollution being a main factor. Certain man-made chemicals eat away at the ozone layer, a protective layer surrounding our atmosphere which prevents too many of the Sun's harmful rays from reaching us on Earth. The abundance of greenhouse gases being produced by burning fossil fuels also contributes to climate change. These gases trap the Sun's heat, and since there are too many being produced, they are trapping too much heat.