Cloth vs. Disposable

A debate between which diaper is best for your child is not an easy question to answer. When a parent is deciding on which diaper to use, the first that comes to mind is the disposable diapers because they are more convenient to use, but costly. Cloth diapers are much less expensive, especially when you wash them yourself. I’m going to be giving you some advice on each diaper, how each one affects our environment, and the cost of each one. Disposable diapers are more easily to use and to clean up from. There are different types and styles of disposable diapers, ranging from simple plastic covered to the newest high-tech, cartooned covered, the absorbent gel material filled, and elastic legged disposables. There are some parents that find that their baby does perfectly find with disposable diapers while other parents find that their baby has some kind of reaction to them. The disposable diapers are more harmful to the environment than the cloth diapers. It’s roughly estimated that 5 million tons of the untreated waste and a total of 2 billion tons of urine, feces, plastic and paper are added to the landfills annually. It takes about 80,000 pounds of plastic and over 200,000 trees a year to manufacture disposal diapers for American babies alone. It will take several hundred years for the decomposition of the disposables to take place, some of the plastic material will never decompose. The untreated waste that is placed in the landfills by the dirty disposable diapers is also a possible danger to contaminating the ground water. The disposable diapers are way more convenient to use while traveling because you can just throw the diapers away instead of carrying them around for washing. The disposable diapers also require fewer changes because of their super absorbent material. The prices for the disposable diapers vary, ranging from roughly $0.10 each to over $0.25 each. An average baby will use anywhere from 6-10 diapers per day, putting the average cost at