Cloth diapers ARE better for the environment… and here’s why.
December 30, 2008 12:47 pm
There’s quite a lot of misinformation floating around right now due to a lovely “spin” put on a recent U.K. report about the carbon impact of cloth and disposable diapers. There were two conclusions of this report. The media was fed one conclusion and the second has been virtually ignored.
The updated report, entitled “An updated lifecycle assessment study for disposable and reusable nappies” study is an update to another lifecycle assessment released in 2005. An analysis of the initial study by the Real Diaper Association can be found here: http://www.realdiaperassociation.org/pressrelease_uk-diaperstudy.php
The study was revised and released
About the Author
Jenn is the founder of Cotton Babies & creator of bumGenius, Flip, and Econobum, worldwide leading cloth diaper brands. She has four children (Andrew, Oscar, Elsie and Louis) and holds an MBA from Washington University. When she's not working full time, she enjoys teaching business leaders how to implement sustainable economic & social change.
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