Don’t get me wrong; I do love the environment and I believe in our participation to keep it friendly, but I can’t help but wonder if some entities may be trying to make a quick greenback exploiting the ‘green’ message.
For one, I recently read an article when the author takes, for example, the question of cloth vs disposable diapers. More than 80 per cent of Americans still list disposable diapers (DDs) as the diaper of their choice. Could they all be illiterate, or uncaring for the environment or just plain taking it easy?
Now, DDs do demand more resources to manufacture than cloth diapers, even after considering the vast amounts of water and energy that goes into cotton farming. Yet a study concludes that cloth ended up being 39 per cent more energy-intensive overall, when you look at the electricity (and the water) needed to wash loads used diapers.
Maybe the 80 per cent are aware of this.
Tags: Energy, Environment
Tags: Energy, Environment