That's the part I always get stuck on, too. The cotton prefolds we used required 1.5 extra loads of laundry per week, with a front-loading washer, and they lasted halfway through the second child before we turned them into cleaning rags. And the cotton prefolds for the second half of the second child got passed on for somebody else to use. Although there has been at least one study (or "study") purporting to show that disposable coffee cups are better for the environment than mugs. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02393618 As I recall (the article is behind a paywall), this was based on the assumption that people only used their mugs something like 20 times. I just had a mug break that I bought in 1985. |
This article reads like an advertisement for the disposable diaper industry. I mean, one giant LOL to the assertion that Kimberly Clark and P&G are somehow model ethical companies. Yes, Kimberly Clark has made some strides in the sustainable forestry arena, due to pressure from green peace, after many years of clear cutting old growth forests. But both run toxic industries and test on animals.
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I hated running to the store and buying all the diapers. We bought about a pack a month to use when we went out. No way we spent more than $600, maybe more and I had about 40+ diapers. I got most on second's sale at Bum Genius and many were $6-8 each (free shipping). Never bothered with a diaper sprayer, just had a $10 diaper pail and that was it. I washed every 2-3 days. So 2-3 extra loads a week. |
CDs are sooo cute too! |
First of all thanks for your involvement to know the difference between cloth and disposal diapers. Disposal diapers are not ecofriendly to the sourrounding and it harm the environment. Instead cloth diapers are easy to use,
So my personal suggestion is also to use cloth diapers. I'm using Smartipants company cloth diaper products for my kids. |