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Green Diaper Rebate Motion in Sweden

By admin ⋅ October 13, 2009 ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Do you subscribe to treehugger? I’ve found it to be truly an interesting read if you’re interested in living in a more eco-conscious way. They truly do tackle all things GREEN; from The Most Compact Urban Folding Bike Ever to elaborating on questions drawn from their forums, like What To Do With Paperboard? I appreciate their straightforward approach to the disposable diapers or cloth diapers debate – revisiting it when new evidence, studies, products, or current events emerge.

Yesterday, treehugger posted the image above from Imse Vimse and wrote about a motion submitted to the Swedish Parliament that proposes a subsidy for families who chose cloth diapers for their newborns! This motion follows on the heels of a successful “Swedish green car program” and would give families an immediate subsidy for cloth diapers or cloth diaper supplies of $140 or more.

In April Streeter’s blog report, From a Green Car Subsidy to a Green Diaper Rebate in Sweden, she cites Marie Walleberg of the Imse Vimse cloth diaper company as saying that “…in Sweden a switch to cloth could reduce the country’s trash mound by 63,000 tons and take scores of trash trucks off the roads.”

Streeter recognizes the debate over whether cloth diapers are really greener and writes that “Swedish calculations estimate that a disposable diaper uses three times more natural resources than a cloth diaper.”

Many of us would love to see a green diaper rebate here in the states. If you’re interested in getting involved on a local level in your community to support cloth diaper advocacy here in the states, hook-in with Real Diaper Association.

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