Enjoy cloth diapers and the good feeling that comes from keeping chemicals off your baby's skin and
diapers out of landfills.
Not exact matches
If you are going to throw these
diapers out you will be keeping human waster, plastic and other chemicals
out of landfills, but to properly decompose these need exposure to sun and air.
Washable, reusable
diapers mean less money
out of your pocket and less waste in our
landfills.
While some cities accept cloth
diapers in their green bins, many
of the components
of the
diapers are sorted
out and sent to
landfill, and even cities with compost programs don't always compost
diapers.
Julie Clark, owner
of Earth Angels
Diaper Co., and whose twins are pictured above, points
out that poo should never make its way to the
landfill.
Kridler notes that while disposable
diaper advocates try to cite «a British study that suggested all the washing and drying
of cloth
diapers meant their environmental impact was about equal to that
of disposables», that the study has been criticized by environmentalists who point
out that «the combination
of chemicals in the
diapers and their baby waste make for an unhealthy contribution to
landfills and potentially ground water.»
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If we keep filling up our
landfills with garbage and disposable products (like
diapers) we will run
out of landfill space.
Besides, the same should be done for disposables — human waste should not end up in
landfills; it still needs to be shaken
out of disposable
diapers.
(Plus you'll keep one ton
of waste
out of the
landfill for each child that you cloth
diaper!)
Cloth
diapers keep more trash (and human waste)
out of landfills and drastically reduce things like packaging and chemical processing.
At first, I used these new cloth
diapers because I wanted to keep disposables
out of the
landfill.
Visit the EarthBaby booth and find
out how you can divert thousands
of pounds
of diapers from our
landfills and get three months
of diaper composting service FREE!
And as Elizabeth pointed
out... those
diapers lurking in our
landfills are full
of bacteria and viruses from bundled up baby poo.