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That can handle shitplosions with ease..

Any recomendations?

 

Eco-friendly diaper and disposable diaper are somewhat of an oxymoron in the US.  The best bet is the new G-diapers.  However, they still have the chemicals in them that many purists want to avoid including dioxins and SAP's.  You still will have the non-eco-friendly and excessive manufacturing cost for a one-use product.

For true containment and an ecofriendly diaper consider reusables such as the BumGenius Onesize where you can go from birth to potty training in 24 diapers that are as easy to use as any throw away.  They will contain better, by far, because they are designed with fit in mind.  Particularly of note is the fact that many modern reusable diapers have elastic at the back waist so they cling properly to the body and eliminate up the back poop explosions.  

For a poop-a-phobe, modern cloth diapers are totally less hands-into-a-poopy-mess than any disposable counterpart. 

Sarah

 

Either buy a ton of the cloth diapers and realize how much water and soap you will be using in the laundry (another environmental issue), or just succumb to the disposable industry.  The cloth diaper was good when we could all afford a diaper service and a nanny,  Now we have to deal with energy prices...a shitplosion conundrum indeed...

But don't let that stop you...I would go ahead and order a set of the cloth diapers...if they don't work for you as poop pockets, they are great for wipes, small towels, dish rags, diaper changing table pads,, etc.

I have a question thats more to do with chlorine bleach in the diaper... the new 'green' diapers say they are chlorine free. Is that for the environment;s sake, or for the baby's butt's sake?

 Both.  But don't stop there, ask your disposables to get all of the chemicals out. 

 According to the Real Diaper Association:

"Disposable diapers contain traces of Dioxin,
an extremely toxic by-product of the paperbleaching
process. It is a carcinogenic
chemical, listed by the EPA as the most toxic
of all cancer-linked chemicals. In small
quantities, dioxin causes birth defects,
immune system suppression, skin and liver
diseases, and genetic damage in lab animals.
It is banned in most countries, but not the U.S.

Disposable diapers contain Tributyl-tin (TBT)
a toxic pollutant know to cause hormonal
problems in humans and animals.

Disposable diapers contain Sodium
Polyacrylate, a type of super sbsorbant
polymer (SAP), which becomes a gel-like
substance when wet. This chemical can
cause skin irritations and severe allergic
reactions including vomiting, staph
infections, and fever." 

Well all that sounds super scary, but it doesnt really give me much usable information. It sounds like fear mongering. We all know babies dont immediately break out in rashes, hormone problems and liver disease the second they come in contact with a pair of Pampers. Pretty much all manufactured items contain nasty chemicals in some concentration or another.  The question is, do they leach out, and if so, in what amount, how dangerous is it really, and have non-partisan studies been done on the effects... well you get the idea.

Everyone seems to have an agenda to push - I just wish I could find some non-biased information. Although the Real Diaper Association seems like they have their heart in the right place, they are definitley not non-biased, and are definitely not scientists.

Now its easy enough to say 'just err on the side of caution and don''t use disposables' but I'm one of those crazy people who's actually looking for the truth.   

 

 

 

Anonymous:

Either buy a ton of the cloth diapers and realize how much water and soap you will be using in the laundry (another environmental issue), or just succumb to the disposable industry.  The cloth diaper was good when we could all afford a diaper service and a nanny,  Now we have to deal with energy prices...a shitplosion conundrum indeed...

While the jury might still be out, depending upon the researcher, about whether cloth/dispos are better for the environment, it might be a good idea to think locally about which to use...live in the populous northeast where landfill space is at a premium? Cloth might be better. Live in the desert southwest where there are a lot of water issues, perhaps dispos would be more responsible...just a thought.

 Also - let's all lobby for this kind of solution:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/11/18/4666109-cp.html

 Wow!

 BTW - I ordered 7th gen diaps from diapers.com or whatever and they're not that expensive. There is a new brand on there, also, but it's more expensive.

One of the things that I like about 7th gen is that they are made in the US, so there isn't all of the shipping involved (across the pacific) that makes the footprint for a disposable product that much larger.

 

Make the commitment to being earth-friendly and invest in cloth diapers.  Fuzzibunz are great.  Don't buy the laundry costs v. landfill debate.  If it was really ok to use landfills then all of us would be eating off of paper plates everyday and wearing diposable clothes.  Using "green disposables" is just lip-service to being green (and as a parent, you really ought to be).  Kind of like driving a hummer to the recycling center.

I am a full-time working mother and have found cloth diapers to be easy to use.  daycare facilities and nannys will use them too. I don't think there is an excuse.  wow I sound like a le leche league team leader. 

7th Generation diapers are my favorite!  I happened to get to know them b/c they were on sale. They were the only diapers I trusted back in the days of *ssplosion!  Have switched to Huggies since the supermarket stopped carrying them.  I save with an Amazon subscription. Though, have to admit, I can *smell* the chemicals in diapers other than 7th gen! That can't be good- 

I used to use Pampers - now I use Nature's Babycare (www.naty.com). You can find it at Target. They're 100% bio-degradable - corn based, not oil-based. And yes, they work as well as Pampers, maybe even better since my daughter hasn't gotten a diaper rash in them yet and we've been using them for a couple of months now (she used to be prone to diaper rashes).

Yes, but what about all the water and crude oil (i cup per dipe) that goes into producing disposables. Our cloth dipes are made from bamboo which grows prolifically without the need for pesticides or fertilizers - can't get much greener than that.

we sell cloth diapers at www.ourgreenhouse.com

we carry kissaluv, under the nile, and fuzzibuns

we also carry disposable tushies diapers! check it out!!

 

One thing that everyone conveniently fails to notice when the whole water debate comes up is that pulp and paper mills are located on RIVERS. And why is that? SO they have direct access to billions of litres of water to produce the fibres that go into the making of throwaways. And they can polute those bodies of water directly with no filters, unlike the home washer whose load is dumped into the municipal sewer system and filtered before it's released into the water supply.

 I sell washable diapers and I ALWAYS encourage my customers to buy enough that they only have to wash once a week. We do far more laundering of our baby's clothes around here than we do of her diapers. Water usage can be controlled in the case of washable diapers but it cannot when it comes to throwaways.

 ILANA

www.azurewraps.com 

 Well this organization is correct about how harmful these chemicals are to us. The information is out there, so if you think it is fear mongering on their part for providing it, I would suggest you stop watching so much cable news. They are giving you the truth, the chemicals are real, and they are harmful. We won't know to what extent or just how it is affecting us until more people push for change and get these things eliminated and not used until they are fully tested. If you choose to buy them after the information is provided to you, well, that is your choice. The chemicals in diapers, plastics, and loads of other objects are real, it is not a "partisan" issue. You can choose to keep these chemicals and plastics out of your house and  create the safest enviroment for your children possible, or you can continue to ignore this information, perhaps because it is just not convienient for you, and allow industry to keep pumping us full of these harmful toxins. 

I wish I could use cloth, but I live in an apt, don't have a washing machine and I'm not allowed to get one. I guess I could  wash them by hand, but that's just gross.

 I'll just continue feeling guilty in my corner over here.