Disposable diapers are very bad for the environment. (Reply #44)

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Mon Apr 23, 2018, 01:39 PM

Cold War Spook (1,279 posts)

44. Disposable diapers are very bad for the environment.

If you want to do something that is not difficult to do to help the environment use cloth diapers. My wife and I used cloth diapers and did not find it a chore.

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46 replies	Author	Time	Post
World's first ocean plastic-cleaning machine set to tackle Great Pacific Garbage Patch [View all]	sl8	Apr 2018	OP
Are you cleaning it up faster than it's growing?	bucolic_frolic	Apr 2018	#1
According to the article	BumRushDaShow	Apr 2018	#2
Probably the plastic junk is tangled in the nets	FakeNoose	Apr 2018	#16
The way the article was written	BumRushDaShow	Apr 2018	#20
Recycle it.	lagomorph777	Apr 2018	#3
Is recycling working well?	bucolic_frolic	Apr 2018	#4
Recycling is working; it's commercially viable now.	lagomorph777	Apr 2018	#6
China apparently disagrees...	Wounded Bear	Apr 2018	#13
Shipping recyclables overseas kind of defeats the purpose anyway.	lagomorph777	Apr 2018	#22
Yup, and China just banned 32 more types of solid waste,	Hortensis	Apr 2018	#31
There was just an article about that in the WaPost	Maeve	Apr 2018	#19
Thanks - that's very supportive of recycling!	lagomorph777	Apr 2018	#21
GOOD article, thanks. I'd missed it.	Hortensis	Apr 2018	#33
came to post this.	mahina	Apr 2018	#45
Lots of reports on how/why this is failing--starting from the refusal of many forms of plastic	hlthe2b	Apr 2018	#9
They told us there would be trash to steam	bucolic_frolic	Apr 2018	#24
I've switched to a mostly Vegan diet for health reasons	lagomorph777	Apr 2018	#35
Biodegradeable bags really don't work	Kaleva	Apr 2018	#38
at least if the bags are disposed in the available trash barrels in parks/trails in my community...	hlthe2b	Apr 2018	#41
That's a good point	Kaleva	Apr 2018	#43
You should definitely let the research team and scientists know...	LanternWaste	Apr 2018	#29
What a sarcastic and toxic comment	bucolic_frolic	Apr 2018	#36
Comments of that sort seem to be that person's MO.	Jedi Guy	Apr 2018	#46
That's it exactly.	BobTheSubgenius	Apr 2018	#32
40 million wasted on this	n2doc	Apr 2018	#5
But plastic is getting into the food supply. Much of that comes from the ocean.	7962	Apr 2018	#12
Wrong	Bernardo de La Paz	Apr 2018	#17
and they might learn something and make improvements cutting the time down.	FSogol	Apr 2018	#25
As the article says, this can't itself collect microparticles at all	muriel_volestrangler	Apr 2018	#40
Can't disagree with what you say, but I stand by assertion that the $40meg is not a waste of money.n	Bernardo de La Paz	Apr 2018	#42
We waste more on Trumps golf than that	Capperdan	Apr 2018	#23
That's the spirit!	kag	Apr 2018	#28
I also pretend that what I cannot understand is waste.	LanternWaste	Apr 2018	#30
Americans spend roughly $9 BILLION a year on	HeartachesNhangovers	Apr 2018	#37
Need to clean up space garbage, too. We are messy people.l	notdarkyet	Apr 2018	#7
We are. We used to be nomadic. Dirty up one spot, then move on.	tclambert	Apr 2018	#15
Space X just launched an experimental system to clean up space junk	FSogol	Apr 2018	#26
Thanks.	notdarkyet	Apr 2018	#39
That's a great idea. If it does well they can put more machines like it.	IronLionZion	Apr 2018	#8
A teenager created this! I'm so in awe of the new generation!	Honeycombe8	Apr 2018	#10
I remember when the kid came out with the idea.	malthaussen	Apr 2018	#11
I was going to share this link on Facebook	CanonRay	Apr 2018	#14
And plastic will kill the oceans, and then us.	ginnyinWI	Apr 2018	#18
I am so proud of the young scientist/engineer	WhiteTara	Apr 2018	#27
This is amazing, and deserving of celebration!	Calista241	Apr 2018	#34
Disposable diapers are very bad for the environment.	Cold War Spook	Apr 2018	#44

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