Cloth Nappies vs Disposable Nappies? Modern Cloth or Throwaways?Families often start by using disposables – most of the cloth nappy retailers did too, you know, and then start adding up the cost of week after week of $20-$30 at the supermarket checkout. Especially when boxes of nappies start getting smaller as the price stays the same and they think of adding another baby to the family.Perhaps it is time to consider modern cloth again? This article looks at the environment as a factor to consider when you think about the cloth vs disposable debate. Which is better? The solution that suits your family’s needs.Let’s Look at 3 Ideas Surrounding the Environment and the Cloth Vs Disposables Debate:Cloth vs Disposable: Cloth Nappies are BiodegradeableCloth nappies are ultimately biodegradable, mostly. Some parts will endure, like snaps and certain liners will take a long while to break down. Your basic fitted and non waterproof cloth nappy will biodegrade in about six months in the soil.Long before they need to finally biodegrade, they can be used hundreds of times, by a number of children. Disposable nappies, you have no doubt heard, sit in landfill and rot. They take AGES to break down. Why? The conditions in landfill are not conducive to biodegradability, and so the materials in the nappy remain. Human waste, sitting in a dump, fermenting in a little plastic bag. Not an environmentally friendly image…Cloth vs Disposable: Buy some Eco-Friendly Disposable NappiesYou can try out biodegradeable disposables, like Moltex Oko, Bambo, Ecogenesis and Eenie Weenies now and again. These are much more environmentally friendly disposables that you can bury in the compost or add to a worm farm, and are sourced with fibre or plant based contents and absorbency that is easier to biodegrade. Just keep in mind that any disposable in a plastic bag in unlikely to biodegrade anytime soon…Cloth vs Disposable: Buy Your Baby a A Hybrid Stash When considering the cloth vs disposable debate the most important thing to realise is that it isn’t about one or the other – you can use both! It is about which suits you, your budget, your lifestyle and our planet’s resources the most. By being flexible, you can reap the benefits of all of their best features and minimise your baby’s environmental footprint too. What if you create a hybrid stash – use disposables, but also buy a pack of environmentally friendly disposable nappies, and buy a few modern cloth nappies too – they’ll save those late night dashes out to an expensive convenience store. With advances in their design made by clever mothers who have been there, done that, modern cloth nappies are a real competitor to disposable nappies these days.It may seem a simple choice, to buy disposables each week and throw them in the bin after one use, or buy modern cloth nappies, and reuse them many times. The reality is that you can do BOTH!You can combine the best features of each kind of nappy and tailor your stash to the requirements of your budget, your conscience, your lifestyle, your personal preferences and your baby. You will feel great that even occasionally you can reduce your use of regular disposables with the ease of modern cloth.Shopping for cloth nappies is FUN – With over 350 nappy retailers in Australia and New Zealand, modern cloth nappies are certainly a fashionable way to dress your baby’s bottom.