Many Earth friendly businesses celebrate Earth Day by doing giveaways or releasing new products, like gDiapers and their new Great White gPant for Earth Day 2014 :
Or, like Apple, raised awareness for sustainability by leading by example.
My family celebrates the prosperity of Earth each and every day by cloth diapering. The amount of waste produced by one child from birth to potty training with disposable diapers was a sacrifice of our environment that my husband and I were not willing to make. Sure, it means a few extra loads of laundry and extra measures to ensure the longevity of all products involved, but overall it is the only choice for me and my family.
There are many steps I intend to take to be a greener in the future with my current child and those that follow:
1. Making my own baby food.
I love Wean Green's small glass cubes as sustainable storage for homemade baby food. More and more, I see the prices of smaller pieces of tupperware rise, but with glass, storage will never have to be replaced. They easily switch over to simple snack holders for toddlers and older children too!
2. Unpaper Towels
The unpaper towel is essentially a roll of around 12 towels snapped together placed around your ordinary paper towel holder, made with cotton terry cloth and either cotton printed fabric or stain resistant fabric and are completely washable and completely reusable. Thinking about how many paper towels my family goes through makes me a little bit sick when I'm trying so desperately to reduce our footprint. Unpaper towels were the answer to my unasked question. I never knew they existed until I started cloth diapering, and like my diapers they are both pretty and functional. But mostly... Ooooo pretty! Imagine my surprise when my husband actually agreed to use these in place of his precious paper towels! Now to convince him on "family cloth". More on that story another time...
And finally...
3. Wetbags and reuseable trash bags
Along with unpaper towels, I never knew these beauties existed until I discovered cloth diapering. A wetbag is the go-to waste storage for a cloth diapering momma like myself and Planetwise is my favorite brand. I own a long wetbag that hangs on the wall by my changing station by a picture hook as well as a pail liner that I use for my dirty wipes. They are completely waterproof and hold in all of the lovely odors that a child can produce. They also make smaller bags for on-the-go cloth diapers and snack bags for older children.
How are you being green all year-round?
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