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A baby will wear diapers on average during 2 years and a half, for a total of about 6,000 diapers;

Disposable diapers take between 250 and 500 years to decompose in landfills;

In Canada, more than 4 millions disposable diapers are added each day to landfills. This represents about 4.7 billions disposable diapers and about 250 000 tonnes of garbage per year in Canada only (about 3% of the total quantity of residential waste).

Effluents from the disposable diaper manufacturing process (plastic, pulp and bleached paper) are more damaging to the environment than the cotton and hemp growing and manufacturing process used for cloth diapers.

Cloth diapers may encourage babies to potty train faster than disposables, because with disposable diapers, the babies seldom feel any wetness or discomfort.

However substantial the initial investement may seem, you will save up to CA$1,500 for the first child that uses reusable diapers. The same reusable diapers can then be passed on to the second and even third child;

If one counts three additional washes each week (inclusive of the drying), the sum of your electricity, water, and soap costs will only increase be a mear CA$150;

In the province of Quebec, about 130 municipalities have a program in place to subsidize cloth diapers.

1 cloth diaper = 200 disposable diapers!**

Les couches lavables constituent une alternative moderne, écologique et économique aux couches jetables.