- Disposable mean plastics, chemicals and human waste in landfills. (Over 4 million disposables EACH DAY in Canada.)
- Each disposable takes 500 years to decompose.
- Manufacturing disposables takes 70% more water than washing cloth diapers at home.
- "In my view . . . ("disposable" diapers) are an eco-obscenity - they have no real justification save profit (of corporations" - David Suzuki
Solid Waste
Land Fill
Decomposing Time
Trees Chopped
Land Usage
Production
Cloth Diapers
59 lb per 1000 Diapers
None, if you reuse them or pass them on
If thrown away, cloth diapers decompose in between 6 months and 50 years, depending on the conditions.
No trees in cloth diapers.
17 sqkm (for the cotton fields) for 70% of Canada's babies
10 kgs (or less) of cotton per baby, for 2 years.
59 lb per 1000 Diapers
None, if you reuse them or pass them on
If thrown away, cloth diapers decompose in between 6 months and 50 years, depending on the conditions.
No trees in cloth diapers.
17 sqkm (for the cotton fields) for 70% of Canada's babies
10 kgs (or less) of cotton per baby, for 2 years.
Disposable Diapers
442 lb per 1000 diapers
2.5% of residential landfill waste, that's 1.7 billion diapers, in the year 2004, in Canada.
500 years
2.4 million trees per year for the wood pulp stuffing.
460 sqkm of land under human management. (That much more land losing bio-diversity.)
400 kgs of pulp and 130 kgs of plastic per baby, per year.
442 lb per 1000 diapers
2.5% of residential landfill waste, that's 1.7 billion diapers, in the year 2004, in Canada.
500 years
2.4 million trees per year for the wood pulp stuffing.
460 sqkm of land under human management. (That much more land losing bio-diversity.)
400 kgs of pulp and 130 kgs of plastic per baby, per year.
