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True Savings: The Cost of Cloth Diapers

By: Dawn Michelle

There are a a host of contentions stating why it's beneficial to consider alternatives to using disposable diapers. A couple of the most obvious are the monitary benefits and the environmental benefits.
When exploring cloth diapers initially, one might be scared off by the retail price of good cloth diapers. Coth diapers may cost as much as $20 per diaper. Having 10 to 20 cloth diapers per baby can help to eliminate the need to wash extra loads of laundry each week. The beginning cost can be as much as $400.00. Nevertheless, it is the only material cost for 3 to 4 years as the cloth diapers are can be used again and again and adjustable for babies from 7 to 35 pounds.
What is the monitary advantages of cloth diapers? Let's consider disposable diaper costs:
The average baby goes through eight disposable diapers each day at a cost of $0.30 each. Disposable diapers cost $875 per annum at this rate. Take the cost per year times the 3 years most babies are in diapers and you arrive at an amount of $2,625 for the complete cost of disposable diapers!
Lets take a look at how much cloth diapers cost:
20 sizable reusable cloth diapers cost $400,as is stated above.
That's all there is to it. How about the extra price of cleaning cloth diapers? Washing costs about $1. 50 per wash and you'll do about 3 per week or less which calculates to $235 per year x 3 years = $705. So your total cost for cloth diapers over three years is $1105.
Compare the two options over three years:
Disposable diapers: $2,625
Cloth Diapers: $1,105
Cloth Diaper Savings: $1,520
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Annual savings: $ 506
Saving $506 annually by using cloth diapers is only the beginning. There exist major benefits to our environment as well.
Environmental Factors
* Over the course of the diapering phase, one baby will contribute between 8,000 and 10,000 disposable diapers to landfills.
* Disposable diapers are not an eco friendly product, taking at least 500 years for the diaper to disintegrate if left uncovered and exposed to sunlight. However, if they are covered in the landfill by other garbage, they will never disintegrate.

* Fecel disposal is illegal in landfills, but this is not enforced where disposable diapers are concerned. Disposable diapers containing fecal matter leak viruses such as polio and others into the groundwater supply instead of being properly treated at sewage treatment facilities.
Chemicals, given off by chlorinated plastics in disposable diapers, called dioxins, are thought to be the cause of liver disease, impairment of the immune system, birth defects, cancer, and genetic problems in laboratory test animals.
Considering the cost of disposable diapers, the potential health hazards to babies and the environmental impact, many families can benefit from alternatives and help save the environment at the same time. The option of cloth diapers can give you monetary benefits and also help save the Earth

Article Source: http://www.migdashboard.com

Dawn Michelle educates parents on cloth diapers and other natural, organic and Earth friendly baby products. By presenting families with healthy and poison-free alternatives, she saves them money. www.BabySproutNaturals.com

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