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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I don't see people arguing that we should wear disposable underwear, or socks, or dishes... But cloth diapers are so environmentally unfriendly because you wash them? GTFO.[/quote] 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.[/quote]
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