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Breaking Greenise News: Green lies exposed about Disposable Diapers. Do I have your attention?
Seventh Generation’s Big Green Lies TV Show may be one of the best shows in history for those of us who are striving to live a Green Life.
In the above episode Big green Lies exposed the real story behind the raging debate… Cloth Diapers .vs Disposable and which is Greener.
In the detailed report Big Green Lies investigative reports uncovered the following facts:
Sometimes Cloth Beats Disposables…
* Cloth diapers are made from cotton, a renewable resource.
* Manufacturing disposable diapers in the U.S. uses 250,000 trees and 1.3 million tons of wood pulp.
* According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, some 18 billion disposable diapers are thrown away each year. They’re the third most common item in the average landfill behind newspapers and food and beverage containers.
* The EPA says disposables account for about 3.4 million tons of annual waste.
And Sometimes Disposables Beat Cloth
* That 3.4 million tons, however, represents only about 2% of all the trash sent to landfills each year. Why? Because disposables are less bulky than they used to be and weigh about 1/3 less than they did 20 years ago thanks to new, more efficient absorption technologies.
* Water usage was at least two times greater for cloth diapers depending on whether they were washed at home or by a service.
* Washing cloth diapers at home uses anywhere from 50 to 70 gallons of water every three days.
* Cloth diapers generally require the use of chlorine bleach for sanitizing purposes. Once rinsed down a drain, chlorine can combine with organic material naturally present in ground and surface waters to create toxins like chloroform. Read the full Report Here…
Never Give Up,
Wednesday, 29. July 2009
Though I can’t comment on cloth diaper services, for people who wash their diapers at home they do not “generally require the use of chlorine bleach.” Though on occasion bleach can be used, very few people I know do this on a regular basis, and it is in fact generally discouraged by most manufacturers of modern cloth diapers. In most instances, drying in the sun is a suitable alternative.
Saturday, 8. August 2009
Free baby offers aren’t limited to only products the parent will actually use for the baby, either. Free baby offers often include introductory or complimentary subscriptions to magazines such as American Baby, Baby Talk, Parents and other publications
Thursday, 19. November 2009
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