http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/how-to-green-your-baby.php
1. The average baby uses approx 6,000 diapers before potty training.
2. Petroleum-based disposable diapers take between 200 and 500 years to decompose.
3. Disposables used per day: Australia uses 2.2 million, Japan 6.7 million, the UK 9 million, and the USA 49 million.
4. A home-washed cloth diaper has only 53% of the ecological footprint of disposables, and a nappy laundry service has a mere 37% of that footprint.
5. Disposable diapers contain chemicals that were banned in the 1980s in women's tampons, but continue to be used today to improve absorbency in children's diapers.
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3. Avoid using diapers altogether
Elimination communication is a technique of timing, signals, cues, and intuition to help baby/infant express his or her poo-related needs. This is best begun before six months of age, and while it is most commonly used in third-world countries where parents are in constant contact with their children, it has been used in the West with some success.
So that is exactly what I was thinking.......or exactly oposite.
i love that it rhymes...totally adds to the legitimacy of it. of course if we did elimination communication the grown ups would need disposable clothes so that might backfire....
oh and I LOVE me some cloth diapers ;)
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