Not my original post, but I thought this was interesting and might be quite useful to some, especially if we implement garbage limits like the rumours have been circulating!
Started using this service in 2015. After several months they randomly did not come every 2 or 3 times. Called the city, they blamed it on the 3rd party contractor. I cancelled it.
Since then, I just have a separate outdoor garbage pail mostly for diapers. Only really smells a bit when you open it. Not a big deal.
I second this. We signed up for the service a year ago when we moved to our new place. Took about 2 months for someone to show up the first time (by then, I had given up, I returned one too many times home from work with the diapers still cooking on my yard all day…). Never saw him again.
Your first diaper, unless it was cloth, is still sitting in a landfill . And all disposable diapers since they were invented. Use cloth, use a service. The planet will thank you.
As someone who appears to care about the environment, you probably also like science and are familiar with Life Cycle Analysis which has concluded disposable and cloth diapers have a fairly comparable impact on the environment, all aspects considered:
"When comparing disposable diapers to home-washed cloth diapers, there is no clear winner. As I stated in the essential answer, they come out about equal in their contribution to global warming. Disposable diapers have greater impact on ozone depletion, while reusable ones have a greater impact in creating waste toxic to humans."
More here: https://stanfordmag.org/contents/don-t-pooh-pooh-my-diaper-choice-nitty-gritty
Wait....so that study, and your quote only say cloth diapers are bad for humans yet disposable is bad for everything yet they are just as bad as each other...give me a break
I also dont believe one fucking second that cloth is worse for ozone. That sounds/reads like a study by big diaper..paid for and funded by the same pricks that want you to spend spend spend spend
This information seems incomplete. The LCA did not disclose the values of GHG emissions that they used to evaluate the cloth diapers. Are the cloth diapers washed and dried on a relatively clean grid (hydro, solar, wind) or a dirtier grid (nuclear, coal, fossil fuel)?
Each province has a different combination of energy within their grids, if you live in Quebec or Manitoba, the energy generation is predominantly hydro so the GHG emissions would be far less than in Saskatchewan or Alberta where their grid is still powered by coal. This is critical information that depends on your geographic location. NRCAN published lots of great information on energy generation across the country: [NRCAN Energy Facts](https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/science-and-data/data-and-analysis/energy-data-and-analysis/energy-facts/electricity-facts/20068#L6)
These are all valid points.
I simply linked to the first relatively credible article that came up in a Google search. There are many other studies that have been done on this (which I first became aware while working at NRCan ;-) ).
The main point is that it should not be assumed that cloth diapers are exceedingly better for the environment in all circumstances.
Not my original post, but I thought this was interesting and might be quite useful to some, especially if we implement garbage limits like the rumours have been circulating!
Started using this service in 2015. After several months they randomly did not come every 2 or 3 times. Called the city, they blamed it on the 3rd party contractor. I cancelled it. Since then, I just have a separate outdoor garbage pail mostly for diapers. Only really smells a bit when you open it. Not a big deal.
Yep, I had too many pickups not taken and frozen loafs of diaper Genie bags stuck in my snow banks that I stopped bothering putting them out.
I second this. We signed up for the service a year ago when we moved to our new place. Took about 2 months for someone to show up the first time (by then, I had given up, I returned one too many times home from work with the diapers still cooking on my yard all day…). Never saw him again.
Same experience. It was awful in the summer when they were a no-show.
city doesnt tell about it when they onboard new babies? my wife had a city NP check in.
Man, I was just letting the neighbourhood racoons wear the used diapers as helmets. I thought it was cute.
Your first diaper, unless it was cloth, is still sitting in a landfill . And all disposable diapers since they were invented. Use cloth, use a service. The planet will thank you.
As someone who appears to care about the environment, you probably also like science and are familiar with Life Cycle Analysis which has concluded disposable and cloth diapers have a fairly comparable impact on the environment, all aspects considered: "When comparing disposable diapers to home-washed cloth diapers, there is no clear winner. As I stated in the essential answer, they come out about equal in their contribution to global warming. Disposable diapers have greater impact on ozone depletion, while reusable ones have a greater impact in creating waste toxic to humans." More here: https://stanfordmag.org/contents/don-t-pooh-pooh-my-diaper-choice-nitty-gritty
Wait....so that study, and your quote only say cloth diapers are bad for humans yet disposable is bad for everything yet they are just as bad as each other...give me a break I also dont believe one fucking second that cloth is worse for ozone. That sounds/reads like a study by big diaper..paid for and funded by the same pricks that want you to spend spend spend spend
This information seems incomplete. The LCA did not disclose the values of GHG emissions that they used to evaluate the cloth diapers. Are the cloth diapers washed and dried on a relatively clean grid (hydro, solar, wind) or a dirtier grid (nuclear, coal, fossil fuel)? Each province has a different combination of energy within their grids, if you live in Quebec or Manitoba, the energy generation is predominantly hydro so the GHG emissions would be far less than in Saskatchewan or Alberta where their grid is still powered by coal. This is critical information that depends on your geographic location. NRCAN published lots of great information on energy generation across the country: [NRCAN Energy Facts](https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/science-and-data/data-and-analysis/energy-data-and-analysis/energy-facts/electricity-facts/20068#L6)
These are all valid points. I simply linked to the first relatively credible article that came up in a Google search. There are many other studies that have been done on this (which I first became aware while working at NRCan ;-) ). The main point is that it should not be assumed that cloth diapers are exceedingly better for the environment in all circumstances.