A Brief History of the Disposable Diaper
Find out when Pampers was born, what year "elimination communication" became a fad, and how long it will really take disposable diapers to biodegrade.
1961: Procter & Gamble unveils Pampers.
1970: American babies go through 350,000 tons of disposable diapers, making up 0.3% of U.S. municipal waste.
1980: American babies wear 1.93 million tons of disposables, 1.4% of municipal waste.
1981: Disposables start using super-absorbent polymers; size reduced 50%.
1984: Cabbage Patch Kids appear on the first "designer diaper."
1990: Disposable diapers now constitute 1.6% of municipal waste. 7 in 10 Americans say they would support their ban.
1990-91: Dueling studies by Procter & Gamble and the National Association of Diaper Services assert the merits of disposables and cloth, respectively.
1999: Pampers-funded pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton tells parents not to rush toilet training.
2000: Diapers compose 2% of municipal waste.
2005: The ultimate low-impact trend for people without shag carpets: "elimination communication," i.e. teaching your infant to go diaper free.
2006: American babies wear 3.6 million tons of disposables, constituting 2.1% of municipal waste.
2007: Julia Roberts touts flushable diapers, with one caveat: "If you don't really break it all the way up, it doesn't go all the way down."
2007: Pampers introduces diapers for kids weighing more than 41 lbs (typical for age 5).
2500: Early 21st-century disposable diapers will finish biodegrading.
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We live in Perry, Florida, a community where pine trees are "cooked and bleached" into cellulose from which P&G's disposable diapers are made. We have pulpmill-contaminated drinking water, a polluted Floridan Aquifer, the most polluted river in Florida, the Fenholloway River, two species of fish which are changing sex, three species of deformed insects, dioxin-contaminated fish and seafood, the extinction of the Suwannee cooter in the river, no frogs, no birds, the 57th worst air in the nation, many illnesses and diseases among the people, and ten square miles of dead seagrasses where the Fenholloway meets the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to using unsustainable forestry practices, the company has drained the water recharge area of the county, has dried up all the creeks, streams, and springs, and caused tremendous environmental damage in general. that's what it takes to make those disposable diapers in this article. We used to say "stop chlorine, save jobs", but after twenty-something years of trying to encourage P&G/Buckeye to clean up its mess, now our mantra is "Clean it up, or close it down". People and the environment here are suffering to a degree that P&G should be ashamed of - yet their profits dictate that our county remain a "sacrifice area". The cellulose produced here goes into P&G disposable diapers, sanitary napkins, filters, sausage casings, food additives, rayon, and many other products. Now the mill is getting rid of its toxic sludge by mixing it with mulch and selling it as a "soil amendment product" or compost for consumers to grow their gardens and tomato plants in, making a profit off their toxic waste at the cost of your health, not just ours in this poor, sad, sick community.
How many barrels of oil are used each year to make all the disposable diapers?
The information you've posted here is astonishing...we live in Tallahassee, Florida just an hours drive north of Perry, Florida. I'm not educated in the environmental field and almost didn't post anything...like so many, I feel like just another (and I use this term affectionately) "schmuck" who is concerned but at a loss as to how to help. With a fifteen month old, I am absolutely guilty of contributing to the diaper production problem. I guess it comes to education of the consumers who can purchase diapers produced in a more environmentally friendly manner. The key will be cost, quality and availability...I intend to research the subject further. Thanks for enlightening me. - Virginia Mansouri
I know it takes 1 cup of oil to produce 1 diaper. I saw some recent stats that the average baby goes through 5000 disposable diapers before being toilet trained (I think the average age is now 36 months). That's about 625 gallons of oil for 1 child-208 gallons a year! How many babies are out there in diapers-maybe 30 million? That would be 6.24 Billion Gallons of oil a year for disposable diapers! danfiorito@comcast.net My wife made an early toilet training video 5 years ago and didn't know how "green" she was then!
i hate your website!!!!!!!!! it stinks!!!!!!!!!!!
Just switched my 6 month old to cloth for good. I ashamedly admit that my initial adult foray into cloth diapering was unsuccessful. Baby pooped so much, diaper didn't fit well, so much company. That was until I learned that there are so many options beyond the barebones Chinese prefolds and covers that I grew up diapering my younger siblings in. There are diapers that are just like washable disposables!! So glad I switched. So sick of cleaning poop out of clothes every time my son went in an ill-fitting disposable. So sick of wasting my money, picking mysterious globs of gelatinous residue off my son's behind, and slathering my son with expensive diaper creams to prevent redness and rash. And these are my selfish reasons! I knew that disposables were bad for the environment, but thanks for opening my eyes to the ecological disaster. Only wish I could take back all the diapers I used in those first months and sorry for the misery I've contributed in places like Perry, FL.
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It is very sad that diapers are so enviormentally harmful, but it is a known fact that cloth diapers just aren't as good. my family and i are always on the go and the fact of my daughter always being soaked to the bone and smelling foul just doesnt appeal to me. try keeping in consideration people's lifestyles when making such judgemental comments.
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