They deliver and pick up the diapers and wipes once a week and do this huge-scale, majorly controlled composting operation. Then they sell the soil to golf courses. Whoa.
Benefits over cloth? I don't have to pay $2.50 a load to launder them (like a lot of apartments out here, we have a community-shared coin-op washer/dryer), no diaper pins/snappies, smaller gross factor. The overall environmental impact might be a little bit less because there's no energy spent in laundering ... although I think that because I would line-dry the cloth diapers and because they DRIVE out to deliver these to me it's about equal. Cons? More expensive over the life of the baby, but not impractically so.
Other pros: I think this composting idea is great and I'd really love this start-up company to expand to other areas, so this is voting with my $.
Mom, take off the diaper and I'll just put the compost right here in the garden, okay?Do you think I'm crazy? If this was in your area, would you do it (given that it would cost you about the same as all the extra quarters you would spend washing cloth diapers)?
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I think that sounds awesome!! Go for it!
lol Probably not, but it's something you've been thinking about for a while, so why not give it a shot?
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