Reusable product voucher program

The 2026 Reusable voucher program has now closed (and was fully subscribed), thank you to everyone who participated.

The reusable voucher program for Hepburn Shire households helps reduce the amount of waste they create. Council annually offers a discount voucher for the purchase of cloth nappies, period products, incontinence items and other single-use items. The program aims to help residents to think and act sustainably.  

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Why change to reusable items?

  • Around 660 million disposable nappies, sanitary and incontinence products end up in landfill in Australia each year?
  • Every child will use on average 6,000-7,000 nappies before they toilet train. 
  • Over the course of a lifetime, a menstruator will use between 5,000 – 15,000 sanitary products. Most of which will end up in a landfill.
  • During production, disposable nappies use three times more energy and water, and 20 times more raw materials than reusable nappies.
  • It takes one cup of crude oil to make one disposable nappy.
  • Each nappy takes 500+ years to breakdown in landfill, releasing methane in the process (a harmful gas which contributes to global warming).
  • On average, a child will use $3,500 worth of nappies. Reusable nappies can cost you between $500 and $1,500.
  • Reusable nappies can be used from child to child and from household to household. Buying reusable nappies second hand can cut down costs even further.
  • If you use disposable nappies, these go in your landfill/general rubbish bin.
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