If this myth was true we'd all be eating off of paper plates and tossing them everyday. There's a reason most of us have dishwashers and wash the same dishes that we've own for a couple of years. In the same way cloth diapering is cost effective and good for the environment. The average cloth diapering household does diaper laundry 2-3 times a week. Furthermore moms tend to line dry diapers to sun out stains, save drying costs and to make elastic and PUL last longer.
Your typical mom owns 24-30 diapers per child that can be reused over and over again for the first three years of the child's life. Economically that breaks down to $3,100 over those 3 years of disposable diapering. The initial cost of cloth diapering is around $400 with one size diapers that fit from small babies up to toddlerhood. Washing costs are about $50 over the course of a year. Over 3 years cloth diapering costs $550 while disposable diapering will cost $3,100.
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