| |
Cloth Diapers |
Disposable Diapers |
| Solid Waste |
59 lb per 1000 diapers. |
442 lb per 1000 diapers. |
| Land Fill |
None, if you reuse them or pass
them on.
|
2.5% of residential landfill waste thats 1.7 billion diapers,
in the year 2004, in Canada |
| Decomposing Time |
If thrown away, cloth diapers decompose in between 6 months
and 50 years, depending on the conditions. |
500 years |
| Trees Chopped |
No trees in cloth diapers. |
2.4 million trees per year for the wood pulp stuffing. |
| Land Usage |
17 square km (for the cotton fields) for 70% of Canada's babies |
460 square km of land under human management. (That much more
land losing
bio-diversity.)
|
| Production |
10 kgs (or less) of cotton per baby, for 2yrs. |
400 kgs of pulp and 130 kgs of plastic per baby, per year |
