Cloth Diapers vs Disposable: More than an Environmental Debate
By Paul Crossley
Cloth Diapers vs Disposable...a 'rashional' debate
There tend to be two distinct sides to the Cloth Diapers versus Disposable Diapers debate: either you’re ‘for’ cloth and against disposable or the opposite. You may also have the reasons lined up in your mind with regard to precisely why you’re in one camp or the other.
Common reasons to be ‘pro’ cloth include such notions as, reducing landfill, the bacteria and viruses created from human excrement in landfills, trees and plastics used to create disposables and so on. The ‘pro’ disposable segment will speak to pesticide use in growing cotton (though organic cloth diapers are now available), pollution through harvesting and transporting cotton (though producing and transporting disposables also causes pollution) and to human waste in the local water supply through laundering (though this water waste goes to the same place as the water waste in your toilet: the sewage system.
This article will look at the pros and cons of the ecological debate and introduce an additional element over and above the well-being of the Earth: our own health. Read more…
