The Top Ten Reasons for Choosing A Cloth Diapering System
1. Cotton is the Most Natural Diaper you can put next to your baby's skin. There is no need for gels or chemicals.
2. Do you know how a Disposable Diaper works? Do you know what's in a disposable diaper (there are no ingredients listed on their package) ? Try this --- cut a disposable diaper in half. Pour water on half and watch what happens. There are tiny chemical crystals that turn into a spongy gel when water hits them.
3. The Environment. A baby will use either 7,000 disposable diapers or 80 cotton diapers. Think of all the resources used to produce a product (DD) that will last for only a couple hours and then be thrown away. Think about where all the billions of throw-away diapers are going to end up.
4. Less Diaper Rash. Studies have shown there is less diaper rash with the use of cotton diapers than with disposable diapers.
5. Cloth costs Less-a lot Less. You will save about $3000 if you use cloth over disposables. While disposables are priced very cheaply for the newborn sizes, as your baby grows the diapers start costing a lot more.
6. Cloth Diapers are Easy To Use. In your mom's day you needed pins, rubber pants, and time to fold a long flat cloth into a diaper. Now with cloth diaper inserts and cloth diaper covers, it is quick and easy to change your baby. Make it even easier by adding a biodegradable cloth diaper liner!
7. Babies Potty Train Earlier when they use cotton because they can feel the wetness.
8. It takes a cup full of crude oil to produce the plastic for one disposable diaper.
9. Babies learn by imitation. You can teach them by example, the responsible way of dealing with waste. You don't just wrap it up and throw it away.
10. Medical and News Reports from Germany and England now suggest there is a link between the use of disposable diapers and infertility in boys (due to lower sperm count)
Top Ten Environmental Reasons For Choosing Cloth Diapers
1. Disposable diapers use 2x as much water as cotton diapers.
2. Disposable diapers use 3x as much energy as cotton diapers.
3. Disposable diapers generate 60x more solid waste than cotton diapers.
4. Disposable diapers use 20x as much raw materials as cotton diapers.
5. 1 billion trees per year are destroyed to make disposable diapers---approximately 4.5 for each baby who uses them
6. It takes between 200-500 years for a disposable diaper to decompose.
7. Disposable diapers are the third largest single consumer item in landfills, and represent 30% of non-biodegradable waste.
8. 1 ton of garbage is created for each baby who uses disposable diapers
9. 1 cup of crude oil is used for the plastic in 1 disposable diaper.
10. 18 billion disposalbe diapers are used in the U.S. each year enough to stretch to the moon and back 9 times.
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The sources for the facts listed above are the following: Sierra Club, Californians Against Waste, Rhode Island Solid Waste Management Agency, Lehrberguer Report on the Impact of Diapers on the Environment, Greenpeace, Environmental Defense Fund, Center for Policy Alternatives
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