What's the Real Reason Cloth Diapers Are Coming Back

Cloth diapers, what I like to call fancy diapers, are making a huge come back in recent years. After being outsold for the past 30 years by disposable diapers, fancy diapers - and not so fancy diapers, are once again making their presence known.

Fancy diapers are anything that makes diapering your baby easier than safety pins and rubber pants, and baby only the best will do! Velcro has replaced safety pins - snaps too! You can purchase one size of diaper that will fit your baby from infancy through toddlerhood. If that's not a fancy diaper, I don't know what is!

But all the fancy stuff isn't the real reason that cloth diapers are making such a huge comeback. Almost 4 tons of disposable diapers are being thrown into our landfills every year. 4 tons of icky, smelly, plastic wrapped, bundles of feces and urine that are sure to contain billions of germs. Germs quietly awaiting their release when the actual diaper decomposes in 200-250 years. Yep, over 200 years for those disposable diapers to break down and release some pretty nasty stuff! Our great - great - great - great grandchildren won't even be born yet when this years "crop" of disposables begin to hit the air we breathe.

I don't think anyone could have known 30 years ago the impact that disposable diapers would have not only on the landfills, but on society as well. In my humble opinion, not the least impact was that fathers no longer had a good excuse for not changing diapers! (well, they never did, but disposables took away their standard answer anyway!). Seriously though, cloth diapers are back. With a vengeance.

With Velcro and snaps, water resistant diaper covers and the wonderful array of colors and designs, cloth diapers have everything their disposable counterparts have to offer. In addition, cloth diapers will cost about $100 PER FAMILY for plain prefolded diaper and covers to about $600 for more fancy diapers, like pocket diapers, all in one diapers and organic diapers for EACH FAMILY. Whereas disposable diapers will cost about $3000 for EACH CHILD who uses them.

Source: http://hongliye.blogspot.com/2012/09/reusable-frolic-in-water-diapers.html