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"CLOTH DIAPERS WASTE MORE WATER THAN DISPOSABLES"

This is False information.

Have you ever heard this quote from anyone before?

Would you believe that this quote was put out by disposable diaper companies over 30 years ago as an ad campaign?

And that myth has still floated around even though it's been discounted in numerous studies since then.

The truth:

Disposable diapers waste;

"20 times more raw materials, 3 times more energy, 2 times as much water, and generate 60 times more waste."

http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/diapers/politics.html


Help The ENVIRONMENT

If you’d like to make one simple contribution to do your part and HELP THE ENVIRONMENT then switch to cloth diapers. In a baby’s 2 yr diapering period they will each make about 9000 dirty diapers, more if they are in diapers longer, which many babies are. That is equivalent to TWO TONNES OF SOLID NON_BIODEGRATABLE WASTE!!! That’s about the size of my Airstream. Now imagine that buried in your back yard! And if you have more children, multiply that number per child!! Today’s easy to use cloth diapers make helping the environment FUN and EASY! Many of Today’s trendy parents are taking the CLOTH DIAPER PLUNGE. Gwenyth Paltrow bought 90 (30 in ea size) designer cloth diapers for her little darl’in at an upscale linens boutique for $30 each!
Our Current Landfills are closing at the rate of one a day in this Nation. The Over burdened Landfills are a threat to our water and land pollution standards for health. The seepage from the landfills are toxic to our well water and farmland. What will happen in the next 20-30 yrs when these landfills are all full?
Although we incinerate most of our waste, the polymer in disposable diapers is fire retardant. And ultimately, the incinerated ash and unburnt rubbish is dumped into our landfill. For more on the need to minimize waste research articles on your own.
Even the manufacturing of Disposable Diapers is destroying the environment. They use 3.4 Billion Gallons of OIL and over 250,000 trees a YEAR just to make disposables which will ultimately end up in our back yard! I live in a town that is currently building a whole block of lovely new apartment buildings right next to the site of an old Landfill that they had to close 10 yrs ago because the seepage into the neighbors well-water was making people sick!Even if You only used Cloth diapers Part-Time and still used some disposables you’d still be saving a ton of money and natural resources.

Disposables diapers contain Acrylate Powders which can be deadly if inhaled or ingested. Some children and adults have very strong allergic reactions to these and other chemicals and perfumes in disposables. Dioxins, made from the bleaching process of wood pulp into paper are also found in disposables at alarmingly high rates. These dioxins are some of the most highly treacherous chemicals known.

NO TOXIC CHEMICALS
The Cloth diapers are made from naturally absorbent cottons, so they do not need chemicals that are found in all disposable diapers to keep baby dry. Do you know that Sodium polyacrylate that turns to gel when it absorbs baby's pee can cause blindness if it gets into the eyes - or that Dioxins are created by the bleaching process and have been linked to Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS)? Babies with sensitive skins are known to react to these chemicals, breaking out in rashes. The long term effect of these chemicals is largely unknown - do your own research. I personally do not want these chemicals next that very sensitive area on my baby’s skin.