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Why Cloth? Admit it, you’ve thought about switching to cloth diapers. You’ve just never met anyone who cloth diapers or done any additional research to prepare yourself for the unknown. Well, I’ve done some research and I wish I knew all of this before my son was born 2 1/2 years ago. I would have put him in cloth long before we decided to make the switch. Here are some of the health and environmental reasons we made the switch to cloth after my daughter was born.
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Disposable diapers contain traces of Dioxin, an extremely toxic by-product of the paper-bleaching process. It is a carcinogenic chemical, listed by the EPA as the most toxic of all cancer-linked chemicals. It is banned in most countries, but not the U.S. -
18 billion disposable diapers are thrown in landfills each year and no one knows how long it takes for a disposable diaper to decompose. 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, a significant fact, considering that they are a single use product, used by a limited portion of the population. -
In a house with one child in diapers, disposables make up 50% of household waste. -
The manufacture and use of disposable diapers accounts for 2.3 times more water wasted than cloth.
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