Washable Cloth Diapers Were On The Market Long Before Plastic Diapers

Sometimes whenever an idea or a product or service is reintroduced to the market, many of us forget the past and visualize that idea or item as completely new. An example to this is the renewed popularity of cloth diapers. We all are so accustomed to see plastic, throw-away diapers everywhere that we have forgotten the fact that cloth diapers have been right here before their contemporary cousins. Yes, cloth diapers have already been used for many years (if not ages) before "modern" plastic diapers were ever created.

And as is the situation with almost every technological progress, mothers and fathers all over the world accepted these new, throw away diapers with open arms. And why shouldn't they do so? After all, the new products did not need washing; as opposed to laundering cloth diapers like they used to do for years, all they had to do now is to use them once and then dispose of and use the next one. But if there can be one thing that life teaches people, it is that every single good thing comes along with certain negative effects. Not long after the throw away diapers became popular, consumers started to notice the disadvantages of this new and exciting product.

First of all, every household with a new baby was shelling out a lot of money to purchase these new and convenient diapers. The expenses were so high that the diaper industry actually exploded in a few months with this new and exceptional market demand. But with the international economic crises and recessions, people started to discuss the ways they were spending, and this has been the initial step that paved the way for cloth diapers' return. In the end, even if cloth diapers forced consumers to wash them after each use, they were much more cost effective as they can be used over and over provided that they were carefully washed.

But the cost wasn't the only factor that started to shift the balance on cloth diapers' favor. Plastic diapers also created a big ecological problem. Lots and lots of throw away diapers dumped to the ecosystem day after day rapidly became an actual problem on our ecosystem. And environment sensitive parents ended up being the first to act in response and debate the logic of contaminating their children's world with the diapers they were purchasing for their children. It was that concern that triggered the invention and manufacturing of green products like naturally degradable diapers.

Nowadays, there are separate groups that endorse each one of these diaper types. People supporting throw away diapers for their convenience, those favoring the use of bio-degradable diapers since they pose a significantly smaller threat to the planet, and those who use only cloth diapers. At the end, the decision is definitely up to us as parents and buyers. We can go for convenience, or we can think about our future.

----------------------------------------------------
Dean M. Crockwell is an enthusiastic dad who likes to talk with other parents. He runs his website at http://www.washing-cloth-diapers.org and explains his own views regarding the subject.

EasyPublish this article: http://submityourarticle.com/articles/easypublish.php?art_id=200354