The thing that's going to stop the airflow to some extent is the polyurethane laminate, but that stops it even less so
than the disposable diaper plastic.
Not exact matches
On Environment Canada's website, they claim that «effluents from the
disposable diaper manufacturing process (
plastic, pulp, and bleached paper) are more damaging
than the cotton and hemp growing and manufacturing process used for cloth
diapers.»
The result is an annual US consumption of 80,000 pounds of
plastic, 200,000 trees, and more
than 18 billion
disposable diapers in our landfills.
While old - fashioned
plastic disposables are a definite no - no, it turns out that washing, bleaching and drying cloth
diapers several times may actually be more harmful to the environment
than swaddling your baby's booty in modern, biodegradable, chlorine - free
disposables.
@ 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!
As a result, more
than 18 billion
disposable diapers end up in our landfills every year - equalling 80,000 pounds of
plastic tossed and 200,000 trees cut down a year.
There are now options for chlorine and
plastic - free biodegradable
diapers and they aren't much more expensive
than name - brand
disposable diapers.