There is also the
option of a diaper service, which through economy of scale uses less energy and water per diaper than home washing.
With the need for clean diapers came the
idea of the diaper service, which would bring fresh, clean diapers directly to your door.
Results of a 1996 national
survey of diaper service customers revealed that babies diapered in cotton potty train much sooner - on average at 30 months of age.
Thankfully, we were given three months
of diaper service at one of my baby showers and then a friend gave me her stash of prefolds and diaper covers.
Our 100 % cotton, heavyweight twill Diaper Rite ™ Prefolds are
of diaper service quality, super-absorbent, and so very plush; they can be purchased in both bleached or unbleached and perfectly cut to fit inside most cloth diaper wraps without folding over the ends!
In addition to RSR's evidence based retail presentations, the conference content will focus on the latest Consumer Product Safety Compliance guidelines, technology solutions for independent business owners,
modernization of diaper services, consumer education classes, and garnering the most success from your social media marketing efforts.
In fact, some argue the 1990 Little study encouraged more parents to use disposables and contributed to a dramatic decline in the
use of diaper services throughout the 1990s.
An abundance of Web sites and bustling message boards, as well as two national organizations devoted to cloth diapering - the Real Diaper Association and the National
Association of Diaper Services - suggest a slow resurgence in the practice.
In one cradle - to - grave study sponsored by the National Association
of Diaper Services (NADS) and conducted by Carl Lehrburger and colleagues, results found that disposable diapers produce seven times more solid waste when discarded and three times more waste in the manufacturing process.
Are you familiar at all with the National Association
of Diaper Services?
Ann Beaudry, an environmental consultant with the National Association
of Diaper Services, said she knows of only two diaper services besides the two in Atlanta that deliver disposables: one in Washington state and another in San Diego.
A former board member of the Real Diaper Industry Association and the National Association
of Diaper Services, Judy was a second generation diaper service operator and the co-owner of Tiny Tots Baby Boutique.