We decided to go ahead and give cloth diapers a try.
Just thinking of all the disposable diapers that end up in landfills is disgusting. I figured I could do something to help the environment by using cloth ones instead.
If you consider the facts, its a wonder more people don't use cloth!: 18 billion disposable diapers are thrown in landfills each year, taking as many as 500 years to decompose. Disposable diapers make up the third largest source of solid waste in landfills, after newspapers and food and beverage containers.
Others point out that washing cloth diapers requires large amounts of water and energy , (along with soaps pouring into our waters). However, feces runoff from heaps of disposable in landfills after a rainfall sounds worse to me.
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