Here is a picture of Cannon in his first cloth diaper! He is just precious. It feels so sweet, cozy and we are helping our environment too! Now, today is our first day and I just put this diaper on Cannon at 5pm. I have never known anyone who has used these, so I do not know what to expect. Stay tuned...
Did you know?
It is estimated that 27.4 billion disposable diapers are consumed every year in the U.S.
The instructions on a disposable diaper package advice that all fecal matter should be deposited in the toilet before discarding, yet less than one half of one percent of all waste from single-use diapers goes into the sewage system.
Over 92% of all single-use diapers end up in a landfill.
In 1988, nearly $300 million dollars were spent annually just to discard disposable diapers, whereas cotton diapers are reused 50 to 200 times before being turned into rags.
No one knows how long it takes for a disposable diaper to decompose, but it is estimated to be about 250-500 years, long after your children, grandchildren and great, great, great grandchildren will be gone.
Disposable diapers are the third largest single consumer item in landfills, and represent about 4% of solid waste. In a house with a child in diapers, disposables make up 50% of household waste.
Disposable diapers generate sixty times more solid waste and use twenty times more raw materials, like crude oil and wood pulp.
The manufacture and use of disposable diapers amounts to 2.3 times more water wasted than cloth.
Over 300 pounds of wood, 50 pounds of petroleum feedstocks and 20 pounds of chlorine are used to produce disposable diapers for one baby EACH YEAR.
In 1991, an attempt towards recycling disposable diapers was made in the city of Seattle, involving 800 families, 30 day care centers, a hospital and a Seattle-based recycler for a period of one year. The conclusion made by Procter & Gamble was that recycling disposable diapers was not an economically feasible task on any scale.
4 comments:
Actually, Cannon's Uncle Sean wore
cloth diapers up until Cannon's
dad, Brett came along. I give you credit for your concern about the
environment. Maybe you will be the spark that initiates cloth diaper
awareness.
By the way, Cannon looks cute in anything!
You are brave!! Hope it's going well for you! :o)
That's awesome that you are using cloth diapers! Now if only Summerville would get the hint about recycling! :) Give Cannon a kiss from Aunt Poof!
Yes, you are very, very brave! Much braver than me! Let me know how it goes. You are saving the environment while I ruin it ;o)
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