The Great Diaper Change
By: Katrina Irwin
Updated: April 21, 2011
We all know that disposable diapers can clog up our landfills. So, those who are environmentally friendly are looking for other options.
"We are putting billions and billions of disposable diapers into our landfills annually," says Mary Anne Lockwood of Sweet Pea Diapers in Rochester.
Sweet Pea Diapers is a cloth diaper service in Rochester. They opened up a few years ago.
"With the service, you just put the cloth diaper in a diaper pail instead of putting a disposable into our landfill and we come every week. We pick them up and drop you off clean ones," Lockwood adds.
In order to raise awareness, Sweet Pea Diapers is hosting "The Great Diaper Change" this Saturday. It's tied into a larger event happening around the world.
Lockwood says, "we're working on setting a world record with Guinness world records, for the most babies being changed simultaneously into cloth diapers around the world."
They will have room for 72 babies to take part. There will be lots of other family activities too. Cloth diapers have changed a lot over the years.
"It can be as simple as a disposable diaper," says Lockwood. But it doesn't have the same impact. According to the Real Diaper Association. Disposable diapers take between 250 and 500 years to decompose. They are also the third largest single consumer item in landfills.
If you would like to take part in the great diaper change. It is happening Saturday at RIT.
Registration begins at 11:00. Some of the proceeds will go to breast cancer awareness.
Comments
Whether you currently use them, are interested in using them, have nonidea what they are about, use a diaper service, want to use a diaper service or launder at home.
The waste water argument just doesn't hold water. There are so many environmentally friendly detergents available, someone which were designed especially for cloth diapers. They don't have phosphates, little to no surficants, no brightness or any of the other additives that are harmful to our water supply. There are sonmany options with cloth diapering and that is just the point of this event. In addition Baby Green Bottom is NOT a diaper service, we are a retailer of environmentally friendly products for mothers and babies. This event is planned as a fun family day for everyone that pairs environmental awareness with raising money ( for [censored] cancer and cloth diaper advocacy) and good family fun! Please check the website www.rochestergdc.weebly.com.
I wash my son's cloth diapers at home, using all natural products. Instead of gross bleached diapers, his [censored] is covered by organic unbleached cotton. A parent who wants to cloth diaper and doesn't mind running 2-3 extra loads of laundry per week can cloth diaper their baby in organic unbleached cotton for under $200 TOTAL from birth to potty training! That's what 2 months of the service from Sweet Pea costs.
I love that cloth diapering is becoming popular. But most people who cloth diaper are looking for a frugal choice for diapering, as well as the environmental change, and a diaper service is not at all the way to do that.
