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- Ronnie Citron-Fink
- March 31, 2010
- 12:02 pm
- 45 comments
By the time a child is toilet trained, a parent will change between 5,000 and 8,000 diapers, adding up to approximately 3.5 million tons of waste in U.S. landfills each year. Whether you choose cloth or a more environmentally-friendly disposable, you’re making a choice that has less of an impact on our planet. Green diaper choices.
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Ronnie Citron-Fink
Ronnie Citron-Fink is a writer, editor and educator. She has written hundreds of articles about sustainable living, the environment, design, and family life for websites, books and magazines. Ronnie is the creator of Econesting, and the managing editor of Moms Clean Air Force. Ronnie was named one of the Top Ten Living Green Experts by Yahoo. Ronnie lives in New York with her family.
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Thanks for the article.
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We have cloth diapers that were used when I was a baby. My parents used them as burp rags for my other two siblings once disposeable diapers became more available.
Even though,,im not yet a mother i am certainly aware of this issues.Good idea to replace it with cloth or the diaper you are using you can recycle it by getting the foams inside of the diaper and replace it with cloth.That way you can wash and dry it.And use it again!
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The more I read about the expense and time it takes to care for a child makes me extremely happy about my long-ago decision never to have them.
Both my children used cloth diapers only.
Good article but cloth diapers use A LOT of water to clean them. I researched a lot about this when I was pregnant. We ended up using G Diapers which are great because the liners are biodegradable - hurrah! However, when we moved to the UK they didn't have this but had diapers that were almost 100% biodegradable and wet wipes that were!
Holy ****, 3.5 million...
I used both and liked both.
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