| Have you ever considered the ramifications of lining up | | | | many different types with varying environmental |
| all your purchases and belongings based on personal | | | | impact and conveniences. Some require folding and |
| convenience to the point of sacrificing everything else? | | | | pinning, but most are pre-folded, and many will come |
| Were you aware that global warming is currently | | | | with fastening mechanisms built right in. Cloth diapers |
| melting substantial portions of the arctic, to the point | | | | usually come with removable liners, allowing waste to |
| where polar bears may soon become extinct? Small | | | | be efficiently banished to the toilet where it belongs. |
| decisions in how you shop have results on the planet | | | | Even reusable diapers without liners, however, are |
| that you may not have intended. If you're interested in | | | | generally constructed to be leak-proof, stain-resistant, |
| making a change for a better future, you need to stop | | | | and fast-drying. Using the extra energy in your drying |
| buying those plastic disposable diapers and switch to | | | | machine isn't even necessary, since if you have a |
| cloth. | | | | reasonable supply of diapers you can simply air out |
| Disposable diapers capitalize on the laziness of parents | | | | damp ones in the sun for no added charge on your |
| to the vast detriment of the environment. In fact, | | | | electricity bill. |
| they're the third largest consumer solid waste item | | | | There's no denying that plastic disposable diapers are |
| present in landfills. Were you aware that there is an | | | | convenient. They fit well, they hold in liquids, and above |
| island of garbage twice the size of Texas in the | | | | all else they're easy to get rid of. But by reducing a |
| middle of the Pacific? And yes, most of it is plastic. | | | | natural process to something to be removed from |
| With the effects of pollution more readily visible than | | | | sight as quickly as possible and to heck with the |
| ever before, people are finally waking up to the fact | | | | consequences, we pay in the long run. After all, those |
| that it's up to us to protect the planet we live on. We | | | | diapers aren't REALLY just disappearing, are they? |
| can only hope it's not too late! While disposable diapers | | | | No, they're being sent to landfills where you won't have |
| will resist being incorporated into the environment for | | | | to look at them. But what's the good in that, if the result |
| hundreds of years, cloth diapers can be reused over | | | | is that your baby has to grow up in a contaminated |
| and over from one baby to the next, and when they | | | | world? Give reusables a chance, and you might just |
| finally give up the ghost, they return to the earth with | | | | find that there's a better alternative that isn't much |
| comparatively little fuss. | | | | more inconvenient, and saves a lot on your budget to |
| Lest you think that reusable cloth diapers are a | | | | boot. |
| primitive and outdated form of diapering, they come in | | | | |