Environmentally Friendly Diapers!
Published on 17 Sep 2007 at 10:00 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Green.
My wife and I are expecting our first baby around the end of Novemeber, and we are diving in headfirst (like everyone before us) into parenthood. One thing that has always bothered me were diapers. There is a lot of waste associated with diapers. Cloth diapers seemed to be the most responsible option, however, there is a lot of washing that is required, and this entails detergents and significant water usage.
Today my wife introduced me to a new environmentally-friendly option called gDiaper, which you cam learn about at http://www.gDiaper.com
The workhorse of the gDiaper is the flushable, which is truly flushable. It is made of tree-farmed fluff pulp, and super absorber (known as sodium polyacrylate), which has been shown to be both safe for the baby and green for the environment. Even if you don’t flush it, you can throw it away (i.e. send it to a landfill). The flushable decomposes in several months as opposed to the 500 years required for a standard diaper to decompose.
The flushable fits into snap-in liner, which can be washed if it gets dirty. I wonder how that could happen? And the liner snaps into the cute “little g” pants, which can be washed like normal clothing.
With Americans generating 38,000 diapers per minute, I am happy to see a green alternative. We will prove Kermit the Frog wrong yet!
I am not sure how well they work yet, but I am anxious to see because “500 years is a long time.”
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Anita on 17 Sep 2007 at 11:25 pm: 1
I love that they’re “little g pants.” Environmentally sound AND outrageously cute!
Rebekah on 19 Sep 2007 at 7:44 pm: 2
Wow, that generated a lot of great google ads!
Awesome idea though! Our little mammal is already doing his or her part to save the world!
yay!
Joe on 19 Sep 2007 at 8:22 pm: 3
Dude
Keep those heavy duty diapers on hand for the nights and traveling. Messes suck.
500 years in a land fill is peanuts. Heck, if it seems too long then think of it as a carbon sink.
BTW, I think the absorber is also used in potting soil mixes to enhance soil water holding capacity.