The Green Guide Nursery Forest

Disposable diapers may be convenient, reliable and cheap to buy, but if one were to factor in the trees used in their manufacture, their cost to all of us goes up considerably. A startling one billion trees worldwide are used per year to manufacture single-used diapers. A quarter of a million trees a year are felled just to diaper American babies.

Recently, a Green Guide [click here to read About The Green Guide] reader expressed concern and regret for the considerable quantities of trees being consumed per year to make babies' diapers, including her own. Expecting others to feel as she does, she suggested The Green Guide sponsor the planting of trees to replace the ones lost to diaper making. And so, with this, the seed for The Green Guide Nursery Forest was sewn. Now thanks to donations from thousands of Americans who have allowed us the opportunity to purchase hundreds of thousands of trees—and the help of our tree-planting partner institution, Trees for the Future—The Green Guide Institute's worldwide Nursery Forest has been born and is growing. As the costs for this effort are being kept very low, all but 5 cents of every dollar raised goes to plant trees. It really is true—when we care for the planet, we care for our children.

The Green Guide Institute [click here to read About The Green Guide Institute] is pleased to be partnering with Trees for the Future in the creation of The Green Guide Nursery Forest. Trees for the Future is a non-profit worldwide people-to-people action program working with communities devastated by the loss of forests. Trees for the Future assists the communities in the planting of millions of permanent, beneficial trees each year that help to rebuild the soils, hold rainfall on the land, offer habitat for endangered birds and wildlife, and support their ways of life.

The Green Guide has reported on other environmental concerns associated with single-use diapers as well as the experience of one community where used diapers are being recycled and turned into roof shingles and shoes.