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To encourage families to minimize waste and use washable diapers, the Township of Alfred and Plantagenet offers 5 grants of $200 each year.
Did you know?
- One child will use 6000 disposable diapers from birth to potty training which equals to one ton of garbage. Using cloth diapers will reduce the quantity of waste sent to the landfill.
- Disposable diapers take up to 500 years to fully decompose.
- 2,400,000 tress are cut down every year in Canada to make disposable diapers.
- Each year, 1.7 billion diapers go directly to landfills around the world which requires 17,000 garbage trucks to transport them to the landfills.
- Disposable diapers use 2.3 times more water in the production process than washable diapers.
- You will save approximately $1,500.00 per child.
One washable diaper replaces 230 disposable diapers.