| Now you can have it all: the convenience of disposable | | | | they briefly take-up scare landfill space, they degrade |
| babies diapers and the reassurance of all-natural | | | | and disappear in 150 days. The best organic |
| materials; "Organic disposables," no longer oxymoronic, | | | | disposables, however, are flushable and compostable. |
| promise to end the controversy and help to take | | | | The flushable diapers typically are designed and |
| Mother Earth out of harm's way. | | | | developed for use in "pocket diapers," but a few work |
| Diaper technology may have advanced to the point | | | | just like the old fashioned kind. Parents must break-up |
| where The Great Diaper Debate fades from | | | | the paper and cellulose before they flush, but the |
| screaming to whispers and ultimately becomes just a | | | | flushables do go right down the drain. Compostable |
| memory. Especially working parents and daycare | | | | babies' diapers go right into the heap with all your other |
| providers stridently have argued in favor of disposable | | | | yard waste, breaking down at least as quickly as last |
| diapers, because they put a premium on | | | | autumn's leaves. |
| quick-and-easy changes and zero maintenance: Who | | | | Advances in organic farming have made |
| has time to fumble with pins or tricky closures, and | | | | chemical-free wood more plentiful and affordable. |
| who has time for daily laundry? Environmentalists, | | | | Now, environmentally conscious manufacturers |
| however, challenge disposable advocates' flagrant | | | | produce diapers that go from forest to baby to landfill |
| disregard for the planet's needs: Filled with chlorine, | | | | untouched by toxins or volatile organic compounds. A |
| volatile organic chemicals, and plastics, old-fashioned | | | | few premium producers of organic disposable babies' |
| disposables accumulate in landfills, releasing toxins | | | | diapers boast their raw materials come from rare |
| without degrading. And the average baby clad in | | | | trees organically grown on family farms in the world's |
| nothing but disposables will pile-up two tons of inorganic | | | | emerging nations. That claim scores the |
| waste by the time he toddles up to the toilet. | | | | environmentalist trifecta. Large-scale manufacturers |
| At least five major manufacturers of babies' diapers | | | | attribute their innovations to development of new |
| now offer all-natural disposables. Even the frequent | | | | cellulose products. Used as substitutes for |
| environmental offenders-Huggies and Pampers-come | | | | old-fashioned disposables' plastic outsides, new |
| in all-new and all-natural materials. Most organic | | | | cellulose compounds share plastic's performance |
| disposable diapers will go straight into the trash without | | | | properties, but they come from corn instead of |
| inducing great pains in a parent's conscience; although | | | | complex laboratory-synthesized polymers. |