Making Diapers for the Future

I stumbled across these very innovative baby diapers, which I thought were a great healthy and green solution. gDiapers are the breathable diaper you can flush, compost, or toss. There is no elemental chlorine, perfumes, inks, dyes or latext. There is no plastic layer making this diaper something that easily breaks down and doesn't add to our landfills. The gDiaper has a cute outer panty with a snap in liner and the flushables. The "g" pant and the liner are all easily washable, making everything easy to use and maintain.

gDiapers has a lot of interesting resources and information on their website about their product and their vision for a new way of product design. According to gDiapers, their vision is "Cradle to Cradle design, which is a new concept pioneered by the thought leaders in the field of ecological design, William McDonough and Michael Braungart of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC). Instead of designing products on the 'take-make-waste' model of the last century ('cradle to grave'), they have developed design methodology based on patterns found in nature, eliminating the concept of waste entirely and ensuring that any 'wastes' become nutrient for either nature's ecosystems or for humans' industrial systems. An end to toxic waste and the beginning of perpetually circulating resources, like nature, cradle to cradle."

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