Week 11: Disposable Diapers

Today in my search for a persuasive blog I stumbled upon Katherine Martinko's, treehugger.  She's a very green friendly woman, looking for new way to teach others about eco-friendly lifestyles.  In this particular blog I have attached here:
https://www.treehugger.com/family/problem-diaper-composting.html
She talks about the waste of diaper composting as opposed to just using a reusable diaper.

The particular company she targets for composting is called DYPER.  They use UPS shipping routes to take dirty diapers, they specifically designed themselves for this process, across the country to a composting site.  And while Martinko agrees that this isn't an awful start to creating a more green environment, she argues that the emission of fossil fuels it takes to deliver these clean diapers, and then ship the dirty ones to the compost site, is hardly worth the effort.

Through her contact with the CEO of the program she was able to get a better understanding of the process written above, but it only left her with more denial.  Her belief was that in order to make an item like diapers truly eco-friendly, you must put in a little more work with reusable cloth diapers.  She used her personal experience to explain that she used cloth diapers for all three of her children.  On top of not creating waste, she was also saving money by not buying diapers.  A win-win.

I actually quite enjoyed reading about this, because I understood where she was coming from.  Especially in this time where everyone is hoarding toilet paper.  I've already joked about having to use reusable cloths for myself in the bathroom if I was unable to get actual toilet paper.  And honestly, thinking about it now, reusable cloths would probable be great for the environment as well.  Instead of constantly flushing dirty paper out to the ocean, we could simply clean the cloths and reuse them.  It would probably be a little harder, but it's food for thought.

Anyway, Martinko was smart about writing this blog.  She went and collected facts from the company about the process and interlaced her own thoughts and opinions about its overall effects.  She brought up alternative ideas to maybe enhance the composting process or remove it altogether.  This blog is targeted for people with children I'm assuming.  Most people don't bother reading about diaper blogs, unless they're having to deal with diapers on a regular basis.

Regardless, she strives for a greener place, and hopes to find a better solution to diaper composting, rather than shipping it all over the country.  I mean, if Martinko can raise three children, all using the same reusable cloths, why can't we?  She even remarks about a whole country doing the same process.  As her closing statement said, "there's good reason why the island nation of Vanuatu banned disposable diapers outright."  We can do better than disposable, it's really not that hard, especially if a whole nation can do it.