Single-use, disposable nappies take an estimated 500 years to degrade. Each time a cloth nappy is used instead, that's one nappy saved from landfill. How ever often you choose to use cloth nappies, you are helping your child's planet:
A Day Per Week = 783 single-use nappies saved.
1 Per Day = 913 single-use nappies saved.
Full Time = 5,475 single-use nappies saved (over 1 tonne of plastic waste).
1 Peachi Baby Nappy = 456 single-use nappies saved*.
Figures based on 6 changes per day for 2.5 years (birth to average potty training age). * Based on 1 Peachi Baby nappy being reworn every other day (1 day break for washing & drying).
Carbon Offsetting
For every Peachi Baby order that's shipped, we pay the cost of offsetting these emissions. We use software that combines data from our store with industry data and peer-reviewed models to determine how much CO2 our shipments release into the environment. The models and estimates are not exact, but to make sure that all of our CO2 shipping emissions are offset entirely, the values used in the data models are rounded up.
Most of orders are offset to fund the Jarí Para REDD+ Avoided Unplanned Deforestation project with Pachama. Our contributions go towards protecting the existing forest, improving the biomass through better forest management practices, and verifying the progress of the project.
If you place your order via ShopPay, your delivery will instead be offset to fund the Brazil Nut Concession Forest Conservation Project, which protects more than 291,566 hectares of tropical forest in Peru and will prevent 14.5 million tons of CO2 emissions. This project is made up of 143 parcels of land operated by 377 Brazil nut farmers.
Both of the Pachama projects are Verified Carbon Standard certified projects that will be monitored using their machine learning, satellite imaging. You can learn more about their other projects here.
Orders sent via DHL Express will be doubly offset through DHL's GOGREEN Carbon Neutral scheme.
Carbon offsets are certainly not a replacement for taking steps to reduce our carbon footprint—they're a last resort to make up for emissions we can’t currently avoid.
How eco is Peachi Baby HQ?
- We're almost completely paperless
- We send your orders out in compostable mailing bags with no paper packing slips
- We reuse / repair / donate products that we can't sell or resell (seconds and returns)
- We get about 30% of our electricity from our own solar panels
- We reuse cardboard boxes and then recycle them
- We use reusable coffee cups / cutlery / crockery
