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Green Babies: By the Numbers
- 6000: The number of diapers the average baby uses before potty training.
- 200 to 500: Years it takes petroleum-based disposable diapers to decompose.
- 49 million: The number of disposable diapers used per day in the United States; Australia uses 2.2 million, Japan uses 6.7 million, and the U.K. uses 9 million.
- 53 percent: A home-washed cloth diaper has only 53 percent of the ecological footprint of disposables, and a diaper laundry service has a mere 37 percent of that footprint.
- $1.4 billion per year: The estimated amount of money Americans spend on complicated births due to smoking while pregnant.
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