WTF?
That's quite an odd thing to put on your "thankful" list for Thanksgiving.
I have to think a bit on this Evil.
Disposable diapers is one of the most underrated devices ---and given a bad name all at the same time.
Hospitals and Nursing homes put Chucks under all patients if they need them or not. The cost to clean linen far outweighs the cost of Chucks. Figure in the amount of water, detergent and anti bacterial stuff added, the money to heat the linen to close to boiling, then add the man power to transport the linen to a laundry, the staff that washes and drys, folds and transports the linen from place to place-- At 10 cents each, much cheaper and more sanitary.
The fact that the older folk that use depends, or younger that may use some kind of pantie liner, or be unable to wear tampons,-----All these are in the line of disposable creations.
Baby's go without question are healthier when they do not use cloth diapers that may have bacteria on them.
How many gallons of water are used, how much detergent and bleach and fabric softener goes into city sewers if one uses cloth diapers. How can we be sure all bacteria is killed even using super hot water.?
I have noticed that lately Doctors warn that these new strains of bacteria are surviving the laundry process.
For adults we are warned to wash underware separate from outer clothing, and to use pantie guards, soon to come male underware guards for men.
Evil, have you ever used cloth diapers on a child, had to clean them every day, cannot leave the soiled diapers laying about for a day or so. So you rinse out 6 or more diapers a day, get off all eyeball sight of bacteria.? Where does that Lord awful smell come from the diaper pail come from if it is not bacteria building in there for 24 hours.??
I have to agree that the disposable diapers and their cousins have to have cut down on disease---But what about the land fills that have disposable plastic drinking bottles---??????
