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Even the Amish use real nappies rather than messing around with reusables. Real nappies are better for baby and toddler bums, easier for already stressed paren
by hdjdbtbgwjsn 6y ago
Even the Amish use real nappies rather than messing around with reusables.
Real nappies are better for baby and toddler bums, easier for already stressed parents and more hygienic.
Reusables result in massive energy and water waste, they are a health hazard if not washed properly (many manufacturers washing instructions are very inadequate. They must be washed at a minimum of 60°C whatever your manufacturer said), release loads of microplastics and are a lot more work.
- ornornor 6y agoWhat do the Amish have to do with diapers?
- hdjdbtbgwjsn 6y agoThey do a serious assessment of every new technology to decide if it adds value to their society. Disposable nappies are one of the few technologies they decided to use.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Disposable nappies are one of the few technologies they decided to use. As they don't huddle in caves without tools, the Amish use lots of technology. They actually use fair amounts of modern technology, it's just that the things they reject are pretty central to modern mainstream lifestyle.
- luckylion 6y agoThe Amish didn't start evaluating new technologies in the stone age. If you look at technologies invented after the hammer, of course you'll have a hammer. But you won't necessarily have a smart phone or an Echo.
- Fooloo 6y agoAre you Procter and Gamble?? The argument for and against reusable is pretty much undecided. There also services which do the washing for you. And they are probably way more efficient than people washing at home in terms of energy used. Anyhow, real eco-parents go diaper-less as most parents in the world. Google split-pants, elimination communication! Compared to this letting children sitting in their own feces in reusable or not-reusable nappies is pretty unhygienic. Downvotes? I know it is a big leap for the western mind, that most human ever lived have never seen a nappy. There is a lot of problems with diapers e.g. rash etc.
- readarticle 6y agoThere is a lot of problems with split-pants e.g. children now dribble. It’s not all that big a leap either, there are plenty of gifs of Chinese parents utilizing split-pants to great effect.
- Fooloo 6y agoYes children dribble. Elimination communication helps you to not let that happen inside. So why is this not a problem to the Chinese but you make sound like one?
- readarticle 6y agoAnd what happens outside in the urban areas other people also happen to live in? It evidently is a problem though considering the entire Chinese middle class seem to have switched en masse to disposables, turning China into the largest diaper market in the world over the past decade or so.
- hutzlibu 6y agoHave you actually tried that, while living in a urban environment and not in the bush? Because shit on the floor is also not really hygienic.
- Fooloo 6y ago
- labawi 6y ago> Reusables [...] release loads of microplastics Do people use synthetic reusable diapers? Why would you do that?
- hdjdbtbgwjsn 6y agoAbsorption. Even with the fanciest microfiber reusable your babies bum is red raw after a few nights. Cotton would be appalling. I'm not speaking in the abstract. We tried reusables.