Choose your diapers carefully

May 5, 2008

This post intention is to make you choose cloth diapers instead of the disposable plastic ones because besides looking after your baby you will also be looking after his future.

When I was a baby people used cloth diapers and those diapers were really underdeveloped comparing with the ones we can find today in the shops. I can assure you that the large number of babies that didn’t use disposable diapers don’t have any problems because of that and didn’t do the amount of damage to the environment that today’s parents do with the plastic ones. But not all parents can be blamed for using plastic diapers since nowadays we see more and more concerned parents buying cloth ones.

The reality is that per day the UK uses 9 million, Australia uses 2.2 millions and the US uses 49 million disposable diapers making an overall picture of 60 million disposable diapers used per day just in those 3 countries. Of those 60 millions 90 per cent goes to the landfills and take hundreds of years to decompose. Another problem is the untreated excrement that is flushed into the soil when it rains over the landfills.

When you buy cloth diapers you don’t run the risk of harming your baby due to chemicals used in the manufacture of the disposable ones, you do less 57 per cent harm to the environment due to the ecological footprint that they leave and you save around $1000 per baby.

The cotton diapers or biodegradable diapers are made of plant based plastics and cotton that under the right conditions will decompose quite quickly.

I hope this post has increased you knowledge about the subject and has made up your mind into buying disposable diapers which are the best for your baby and the environment.

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