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Why Cloth Diaper Your Baby? Cloth diapers are superior to disposables for several reasons. We believe cloth diapering is absolutely the best thing for babies, which is of greatest importance. Disposable diapers have nasty chemicals in them that can cause all sorts of maladies including diaper rash, asthma, & possibly infertility in males. Second, cloth diapers are gentle on our environment. We are responsible for nurturing the only planet we have. Our children are dependent upon our good stewardship of earth and her resources. we foud some great information regarding the environmental impact of disposable diapers vs. cloth diapers at thenewparentsguide.com. Part of their article is quoted below. "It is estimated that roughly 5 million tons of untreated waste and a total of 2 billion tons of urine, feces, plastic and paper are added to landfills annually. It takes around 80,000 pounds of plastic and over 200,000 trees a year to manufacture the disposable diapers for American babies alone. Although some disposables are said to be biodegradable; in order for these diapers to decompose, they must be exposed to air (oxygen) and sun. Since this is highly unlikely, it can take several hundred years for the decomposition of disposables to take place, with some of the plastic material never decomposing. The untreated waste placed in landfills by dirty disposable diapers is also a possible danger to contaminating ground water. Pro-disposable advocates say that cleaning cloth diapers uses more energy and contributes to the load on sanitary sewer systems and potential water pollution. This view really makes no sense if you think about it. The amount of water used per week to wash cloth diapers at home is about the same amount consumed by an adult flushing the toilet four or five times daily for a week. Also, the greater amount of water and energy being used by diaper service companies to wash large amounts of cloth diapers multiple times; the per diaper impact on energy and water supplies is actually less than home washing. Finally, when flushing solids from a cloth diaper down the toilet and washing the diapers in a washing machine, the contaminated, dirty water from both toilet and washing machine go into the sewer systems where they are properly treated at wastewater plants. This treated wastewater is much more environmentally friendly than dumping untreated soiled disposable diapers into a landfill.We need to do our part to make this world a better place. " (http://www.thenewparentsguide.com/diapers.htm) Finally, cloth diapering can save (and has saved me) a great deal of money. With disposable diapers costing $.35+ each, it doesn't take long to spend a great deal of money, and then have to throw it into a landfill. Your one time investment in cloth diapers can pay for itself in a matter of months by saving you from buying all of those disposable diapers. See our savings calculator to see how much money you can save by choosing cloth diapers for your baby. Think of all that money sitting in your baby's college fund instead of a landfill! Now that is a beautiful thought! |
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