Page 24 - North State Parent April 2020

for community By Sandi Schwartz
How to Choose the Best Diapers for Your Baby and the Environment
With the arrival of a new baby comes many challenging choices—co-sleep or
with its pros and cons, cloth diapers offer advantages by minimizing environmental harm, reducing health impacts and saving money.
Environmental Impact
The top reason to choose cloth diapers is their eco-friendliness compared to disposable diapers. Dis- posables use more raw materials to make, contain harsh
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chemicals, create more waste and degrade very slowly. Americans throw away about 20 billion disposable dia- pers each year, creating 3.5 million tons of waste that can’t be recycled or composted. That translates to more than 2 tons of waste per child! Unfortunately, studies show that diapers in landfills take up to 500 years to degrade.
Chemicals are a big problem for disposable diapers. The manufacturing process uses volatile chemicals 25
crib, bottle or breast. Cloth or dispos- able diapers?
Your diaper choice can impact both your family’s health and the environment, so it is important to evalu- ate the many benefits of choosing organic cloth diapers for your little one. Although each diaper option comes
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