Did you know that 1/4 of the United Sates population is kids in diapers, and that disposable diapers take up 2/3 of our landfill? That’s 18 billion diapers a year! From an eco website I read, that equates to ”82,000 tons of plastic a year and 1.2 million tons of wood pulp (250,000 trees).”
We continue to be work on being “green” and have switched from disposable to cloth diapers. We are doing all the cleaning/laundering at home. Ugh, I hate touching poop, but really, who doesn’t?! What sucks the most about cloth diapers is that you have to scrub the poo poo out of the diaper to get the SH#T out before it goes in the wash. All said and done, we feel really good about doing this.
Doing the cat walk is Miss Lila Driver. She is wearing an adorable plastic diaper cover made by Kushies. The cloth diaper is made from 100 percent cotton. Her chubby legs are from eating lots of yummy food!
Kate said,
June 20, 2009 at 8:16 pm
We are planning to move to cloth this summer some time. We figured out the type we want, pricey but super easy and we’ll still make all the money back that we would have spent on two kids in disposables in less than a year. Now I just have to find the money and bite the bullet.
minanguyen said,
June 21, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Kate, I totally understand about “biting the bullet.” Ours was also pretty pricey, but our first priority was the environment and second was the $$. But like you said, you’ll make your money back. What kind do you guys like? Hey, you can put it on your registry with this baybay!