"How buying and using a reusable swim diaper can help save the environment."
Today’s society loves Green and not the money type of green either.
Going Green is an initiative with plans to take our world back from
unnecessary waste. Using reusable items can help reduce our
environmental footprint. Reusable swim diaper reduce landfill-waste and
are an economical choice for families. This type of diaper are made from
fabric, not plastic and chemicals like traditional diapers. They last
through many wears, washes and accidents.
A
summer’s worth of daily swimming equals at least 90 disposable diapers
and that is if your children do not dirty one while swimming. If you
swim more than once a day are have to change swim diapers frequently,
then that is anywhere from 180 to 270 disposables in the trash for just
the summer. Then what if you belong to a community center or other
facility that has an indoor pool you can swim year round? You cannot get
away with letting a child wear the swim diaper out and about because
most of them don’t hold liquid. Therefore, swimming once a week the rest
of the year will add another 40 diapers (without changes) to the
amount. On the other hand, you can purchase two or three reusable ones.
Not to mention the costs associated with this. One twelve pack of
disposable swim diapers is on average $9.00. That would be $72.00 just
to swim once daily with no accidents for the summer! Three reusables
cost anywhere from $18.00 to $36.00 depending on the brand. This saves
families the cost of expensive disposables that add to landfill-waste
and pollute our Earth.
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Think about how many of
the disposables end up at the landfill each summer. They do not break
down quickly with all of the plastic and the chemicals seep down unto
the ground water. That is not a good carbon footprint. The cost to move
and store waste like diapers, assuming that your child goes through the
normal 8 to 10 per day, is not economical overall. The effect of human
waste in a landfill is detrimental to the Earth. The ground water is
certainly not sanitary after the chemicals from the diapers and human
waste make their way down into the dirt. The functionality of reusable
swim diapers is the same as cloth diapers. They are all just as sanitary
for a baby as disposables. However, using products that are
environmentally friendly and that can be used multiple times are much
"Greener" than tossing several hundred disposables out each week.
Even disposable diaper companies know that their products allow for
unsafe health hazards regarding human waste. There is a notice on the
package that asks you to flush solid waste down the toilet instead of in
the trash. Now if that does not something, I do not know what does. How
many people do you think take the time to do that? What does Go Green
mean to you? It is important to leave your children, the same ones who
need these diapers, with a chemical-free environment. It is important to
make sure your children will have sustainable resources when they are
grown and have there own children. Reusable swim diapers and regular
diapers can help you achieve Green goals for your own family.
