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1. You can probably expect your baby to toilet train at least 6 months earlier in cotton diapers than she or he would in disposables. This not only has obvious implications for your budget and convenience, but it is highly significant for your baby's development. Toilet training is an important step on the way to increased competence, confidence, and sense of self.

2. The choice of cloth diapers from Nature’s Own Diaper Service helps relieve pressure on our working forests and the world's fossil fuel supply. ONE CHILD in disposable diapers will require 20 trees, 420 gallons of petroleum and generate ONE TON OF GARBAGE!!!

3. GREEENPEACE'S scientific test results contradict a statement by Procter & Gamble, in which the company denied that its nappies were contaminated with organotin compounds. Greenpeace toxics expert Thilo Maack said: "The reaction of Procter & Gamble is a scandal. The company is downplaying the danger instead of actively searching for the source of TBT in Pampers. IT IS ABSOLUTELY IRRESPONSIBLE TO EXPOSE BABIES TO THESE EXTREMELY TOXIC SUBSTANCES".

4. 18 BILLION single-use diapers are thrown in the landfills every year. They take up to 500 years to decompose and are the 3rd largest source of solid waste in landfills.

5. It takes 2/3 cup of petroleum to produce ONE single-use diaper.

6. It takes aproximately 20 trees to diaper one child with single-use diapers.

7. Cloth diapering holds clear and significant health, developmental, environmental, and economic advantages over single-use diapering.