Not so happy nappy stats...

The average baby gets through an eye watering 5000 standard disposable nappies over their nappy wearing life. This equates to over 250 gallons of crude oil, more than 60 tonnes of trees and over half a tonne of CO2 released to atmosphere.

As consumers, most of us don't give much thought to what happens to waste once it's out of sight, but we did some digging and didn't like what we found...