REDUCE YOUR FAMILY'S CARBON FOOTPRINT BY USING BABY DIAPER SERVICE.

How often have you the phrase: "There is no difference environmentally between cloth and single-use, disposable diapers? Wrong!!!  The differences are huge, but because of flawed "scientific" studies this myth seems to have lasted for many years. In fact not only were ALL of the pro-disposable diaper studies paid for and reviewed by the manufacturors of disposable diapers, but the numbers these studies cite DID NOT include manufacturing or transportation!!! So, for the disposable diaper industry to make these claims it must ignore all of the environmental impact associated with making and transporting their diapers. Imagine if the studies included the cost to manufacture, package and transport the 20,000 disposable diapers a single child will use before they are toilet trained. These is no denying that cloth diapers are much better for the environment.

The choice of cloth diapers from Baby Diaper Service helps relieve pressure on our working forests and the world's fossil fuel supply. One child in disposable diapers will require 20 trees, 420 gallons of petroleum and generate one ton of garbage!

The major issue of our time may be that of Global warming and climate change. How we react to the published studies surrounding this issue may indeed determine the destiny of our planet. We can all make changes in our lives that will have a positive impact on our environment and the environment of children inherit. One of those decisions should be the type of diaper you use on your child. In essence you have 3 choices:

1.) Cloth diapers from a profession diaper service (like Baby Diaper Service),

2.) Launder your own diapers at home, or

3.) Use single-use, "disposable" diapers. (I add quotations because is a product really disposable if it's going to take upto 500 years to decompose, or are we just passing the responsibilty on to future generations?)

The decision is similtaneously simple and complex. After all you only have 3 options to choose from, but the devil, as they say, is in the details.

Renewable, Recyclable, Reusable

RENEWABLE: The single-use life cycle of disposable diapers perpetuate their continued consumption, causing undue stress on our natural resources.
-The U.S. consumes an estimated 40.4 billion disposable diapers each year.
-Over 92% of all single-use diapers end up in a landfill.
-Over 300 lbs. of wood and 50 lbs. of petroleum feedstocks are used to produce disposable diapers for ONE baby EACH year.

RECYCLABLE: Disposable diapers are not readily biodegradable which is why it is estimated they take 250-500 years to decompose. In 1991, an attempt to recycle disposable diapers was deemed economically unfeasible.

REUSEABLE: Cotton diapers are not single-use diapers. A family can expect to reuse cloth diapers 50 to 200 times before turning them into rags.

Both of these web addresses contain worthwhile discussions on the benefits of cloth diapering.

http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/diapers/politics.html

http://www.borntolove.com/e-concerns2.html