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If you have a child still in diapers, switch to cloth, or at least part-time cloth diapering.
In the first two years, the average baby will require between 5000 to 7000 diaper changes.
It takes 3.4 billion gallons of oil and over 250,000 trees a year to manufacture disposable diapers.
Disposable diapers can cost between $1500 and $2100 over the course of the three years it takes the average child to be toilet trained.
Disposables take up two percent of landfill space, adding 2.8 billion tons of urine, feces, plastic and paper to landfills annually.
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purplepillbug73
almost 5 years ago
I wanted to update this to include something I recently discovered about cloth diapers. People in the USA spend a total of approximately $7 billion annually on disposable diapers. If everyone switched to cloth, we could save up to $6 billion or enough to feed 2.5 million American children. According to the last census, there were 2.3 children under the age of 6 living below the poverty level in America.
I got this information from www.realdiaperassociation.org.
schoolsout
almost 5 years ago
The most comprehensive study about cloth vs disposables was paid for by Proctor and Gamble who make.... disposable diapers. I think when you take source to source emissions into consideration and look at the production costs too, cloth comes out on top
Administrator
almost 5 years ago
I've heard that washing and drying cloth diapers also poses a significant energy burden. Has anyone seen a definitive study comparing the lifecycle energy impacts of using cloth vs disposable diapers?
Seems like a good challenge idea.
bagels.r.us
almost 5 years ago
ok the last one was kind of gross but other than that good idea.