Those who argue that recycling disposable diapers may be an environmentally-friendly option are not telling you about the energy and resources required for manufacturing the diapers and for processing the wastes. Energy and resource consumption in the lifecycle of a disposable diaper remain much higher than in the lifecycle of reusable cloth diapers.
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.
If you are already cloth diapering, why not consider alternatives to the current usual method of 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. This practice is contributing to the eutrophication (when there are too many nutrients present) of water sources and nutrient-depletion of the land. Such imbalance could be successfully remedied if more treatment occurred close to the source of waste generation, and if the effluent was discharged (in a controlled manner) onto the land, which needs replacement nutrients, rather than into bodies of water, which do not.
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