This company wants to start composting your diapers

Most parents want to leave the planet a little better than we found it for our kids. But the urge to go green can sometimes clash with the reality of bringing up babies—it sometimes feels like you go through enough disposable diapers and wipes to fill up a small landfill on a monthly basis. But for parents who don’t have the time or energy (or desire) to commit to cloth diapering, one company is offering a new alternative.

DYPER—an eco-friendly diaper subscription company—is launching the first ever compostable diaper service called REDYPER. Instead of ending up in a landfill (with 20 billion other diapers per year, according to the company), your baby’s dirty diapers will be put to good use—such as helping to grow vegetation in highway medians, for example.

Here’s how it works: Along with your monthly shipment of diapers, subscribers receive bags and a specially designed box (one that the company says was engineered to Haz Mat shipping standards set by the United Nations). You’ll fill up that box with your baby’s dirty diapers, and when it’s full, you send it back to the company with a prepaid shipping label. And don’t worry—even the environmental impact of the shipping process is mitigated by carbon offsets purchased by the company.

From there, DYPER partners with TerraCycle to compost them. The company notes that its diapers are compostable at home—but that’s a DIY project busy moms and dads might not be able to take on. REDYPER is a convenient solution for parents who want go green—even if they don’t have time or space to do so.

And for parents mourning the loss of the company Brandless, DYPER represents a new way to do diaper subscription services. If you’ve got a DYPER subscription, you can opt into the new REDYPER program for free for a limited time (after that offer, it’ll cost $39 a month).

You can learn more about the program on the company’s website at dyper.com/redyper.