Have you ever thought about the impact one little baby can have on our world? They certainly change our lives....but they also can change the world we live in.
Did you know that:
- Your cost for keeping your baby in single use diapers can amount to almost $3000 per child?
- The waste contained in single-use diapers is responsible for adding approximately 84 billion pounds of fecal matter to our earth each year. Raw sewage is transported to landfills, where it becomes a breeding ground for viruses and bacteria. One hundred viruses can survive in a soiled diaper for two weeks, not excluding the live polio virus excreted by babies who have just been vaccinated.
- Single-use diapers have little to no recycling potential and the long-term effects of them on the environment remain unknown. It is estimated that each single use diaper can take up to 500 years to decompose.
- Dioxin and furans are just two of the toxins produced by bleaching wood pulp white to make diapers look clean. Both emissions from the mills and the diapers themselves are polluted with these chemicals
- Production of a single disposable diaper requires 2/3 of a cup of petroleum. This adds up to over 3 billion gallons of oil (per year!) dedicated to disposable diaper production.
So, as precious as our babies are, they can be one of the biggest contributers to the contamination of our environment. For a cleaner, safer alternative to disposable diapers, why not consider the option of cloth diapering your baby? They're not the cloth diapers of our mother's days....but a viable modern, easy alternative to disposables with many, many design options.
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