Switching to cloth diapering is an excellent start to lowering your impact on the environment. Washing and reusing diapers results in baby's waste being treated in a facility designed for wastewater treatment. In general, the goal of treatment in a large conventional system is to produce effluent that can be discharged into a convenient body of water-a lake, river, or ocean. The sense of consequence becomes more real if an alternative method of wastewater treatment, close to its point of generation, is adopted. Alternative systems often send the waste stream to an area of growing vegetation.
Most people have at least some experience growing plants.
Plants are constantly changing, growing faster or slower, responding to the inputs they receive to their systems. If those inputs are controlled by us, we redevelop our connection to the growth and decay cycle. An awareness that our household waste is headed straight for the garden forces us to reconnect with our immediate environment and think about the consequences of our actions. We choose cloth diapers for a lot of reasons-maybe they look good on baby, maybe they are cost effective. You and your baby will be using far less energy and resources at every point in the life of your 2 - 5 dozen diapers.