GO GREEN: These aren't your mother's cloth diapers
Remember the days of cloth diapers? They're back - but this time around you can forget about the pins and rubber pants.Now, cloth diapers are fashionable, affordable, and environmentally friendly. April Tillery, a mother of two, is focusing on the bottom line these days. She recently attended a class on cloth diapering.
"The first reason was economics," Tillery said. "It's considerably cheaper, especially when I have two children in diapers."
Sunny Hall, the owner of cloth diaper business Cutie Tooties, says on average, disposable diapers cost about 35 cents each. That adds up to about $2,500 to diaper a child from bith to potty training. Hall said it runs about $350 to cloth-diaper a child.
It's not just money you could save--there's also a significant savings in waste.
Hall said Americans use enough disposable diapers to fill a football field three times over, each year.
"The waste and the energy used to wash these at home is nowhere near what we're putting in our landfills, and it takes about 500 years for a disposable diaper to decompose"
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