An estimated 27 billion diapers are discarded annually. These 'mushroom diapers' might lighten the load

An estimated 27 billion diapers are discarded annually. These 'mushroom diapers' might lighten the load

An estimated 27 billion diapers are discarded annually. These 'mushroom diapers' might lighten the load According to Time Magazine, an average of 27.4 million diapers are discarded every year — and that’s just in the U.S. alone.  When facing a plastic crisis of that scale, where do you begin? That’s the question that Tero Isokauppila has been working on for years. Isokauppila is a 13-generation family farmer and mushroom expert from Finland.  After becoming a first-time parent, Isokauppila wanted to find a better alternative for disposable diapers.  When he started looking into it, the prospects were bleaker than he expected.  “If we talk about disposable diapers, every one of those is in a landfill,”  Isokauppila said in an interview with Mushroom Revival host Alex Dorr. “We create more to circle the Earth a few 100 times every year, and there are zero biodegradable diapers.” “All of the ‘eco diapers’ are green washing, and…there's bunch of examples using plant-based materials t…