True, any washable diaper choice is better in terms of resource use and garbage
production than disposable diapers, but are there some eco baby diaper options that are better than others?
Not exact matches
That's less
than half the cost Lunapads was paying for the
production of pads to distribute through Pads4Girls, and about 20 percent what Uganda girls pay for commercial
disposable pads.
This is a society in which money and power are more important
than people, health is a negotiable commodity, old - age a curse, worker slavery a new form of more profitable
production, the poor are
disposable, and the earth's destruction an increasing reality.
I realize that both cloth and
disposable diapers also take a toll on the environment in their
production, but rather
than delve into that, I think it's safe to say that the difference between
production and disposal of twenty four diapers and the
production and disposal of 6,000 diapers is huge.
@ Rich: It takes more water to produce a
disposable diaper
than it takes to wash a diaper (people have no idea how much water is used in pulp
production and plastics manufacturing!
But the
production process, the access to choices to buy reuseables rather
than disposables or organics rather
than whatever is on a store's shelf — these are things that need much more attention within the green movement.