By Cody Robert
Tuesday May 27th, 2008, 10:07 AM PDT
If you’re an eco-minded parent, disposable shouldn’t even be a part of your vocabulary.
They’re uncomfortable (really, would you wear one of those things?), made with non-degradable plastics, and cannot be recycled.
And if you’ve found a way to recycle these things, you’ve already jumped the first hurdle to make the transition to cloth diapers.
My favorite organic cloth diapers
My mom dressed me in huggies. My mom’s mom most likely dressed her in cloth diapers because huggies weren’t invented yet. I don’t know how my grandmother could have survived without piles of disposable diapers at her, um, disposal.
I, will be dressing my kids with the classic cloth diaper. These days you can still get a traditional sized cloth sheet that you’ll pin together but there are also ones pre-cut to fit around your infant and velcro in the front.
I opt for the latter because they’re considerably easier, yet still good for the environment.
Did you know?
If you use disposables:
- Your child will use nearly 10,000 diapers by the time they’re fully potty trained (that’s expensive!)
- Disposables, once in the landfills leech bacterias into the ground from the human feces that otherwise would be taken care of properly in the waste system (ie. toilet)
Check out this article from 1988. Those statistics are 20 years old. You can bet that the state of things is even worse today.
Add that onto the fact that we’ve become even more dependent on disposable products and plastics in general and we definitely have a mess there.
