Here in the U.S. we need to follow the lead of Vaudreuil-Dorion, an off-island town offering cash incentives to families willing to buy non-disposable diapers! And if you think people can’t be bribed to consider cloth diapers, think again!
In March, $10,000 in municipal funds were allocated as part of a trial family to get up to 1,000 families to make the switch. While there are 31 Montérégie towns with similar programs, this particular trial program is only opened to Vaudreuil-Dorion citizens with babies 6 months and younger.
The program gives $100 to residents who buy a minimum of two dozen reusable cloth diapers. While the incentive certainly doesn’t pay for a full-time stash of most styles of cloth diapers, it does go a good ways toward helping with the initial purchase!
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There are similar schemes here in the U.K. Depending on where you live, you can receive a certain amount of money back after your purchase of cloth nappies upon proof of purchase.
That’s pretty awesome! Imagine the difference it would make if we’d do that everywhere! With all the cash incentives Obama has been doling out, you’d think this could be one of them. Though I’m sure the makers of brands like Pampers and Huggies would hotly protest, stalling such an incentive.
I think the disposable industry is still pretty large and powerful; I think that we just have to keep doing what we’re doing and try to educate parents (not just moms) about the positives of cloth and the negatives of disposables. The more people realize their oh-so convenient disposables are killing the planet their little baby is supposed to live in for the next 70ish years, the more they may think about making the switch, and possibly even do so.
I was reading somewhere about a woman that started a diaper drive because she read that some women living in poverty will keep their baby in the same diaper all day because disposables are so expensive. Wouldn’t it be great if instead of a disposable diaper drive, we could do a cloth drive? Then these mothers would have a permanent solution instead of a temporary fix.