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what percent of babies wear disposable diapers and what percent of kids wear cloth diapers?

this is for my science fair project. ALSO, PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME TO RESEARCH IT, OR GOOGLE IT, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY, YAHOO ANSWERS IS MY LAST RESORT. I HAVE ALREADY DONE EVERYTHING I CAN IN RELATION TO RESEARCH AND GOOGLE AND FOUND NOTHING.

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  1. well what you can do is take the number of answers here and use that as your perccentage. See how many people on yahoo use either cloth or disposable. When I have kids, it'll be disposable.
  2. both my sons wear disposables.
  3. i would say 70 percent use disposable diapers, i used them and still do,my bestfriend uses them and all my sister in laws with there daughters in total we have 8 babies and toddlers and we all use disposable diapers i hope i was able to help you GOOD LUCK!!
  4. I use disposable
  5. The mythology surrounding contemporary diapering is a direct descendant of the modern-day waste ethic, whose roots are generally seen as economic. With profits based on sales, manufacturers have a built-in incentive to foster planned obsolescence. And so it is with diapers. The pure and honorable cotton diaper represents approximately 10 percent of the U.S. diaper market--even though it has a viable life of 80-100 uses. Capturing the other 90 percent of market share is, of course, the single-use, throw-away diaper.
  6. I'd say probably 85% wear disposable and only about 15% wear cloth diapers. Both of my children wore disposable. EDIT - Well, I just looked at the answer above mine and I guess I was close. Truthfully, I was going to say 90%/10%, but with everything going green lately, I estimated a little higher for the cloth diapers.
  7. I have 7 girl friends that have all had baby's within 3 years and all use disposible and only 1 use cloth. Edit i use disposible
  8. well for my first two kid i use disposables. now for my baby i use cloth and love them he was about 6-7 m old when i switched but loved them. good luck with ur project
  9. I don't know how to answer this question, but I use cloth diapers 99 % of the time. I use disposable diapers if I will be away from home for more than 3 or 4 hours. I use the modern stay-dry diapers which has built in snaps so that I don't have to fiddle with pins. I use a water-resistant diaper covers with snaps so that I can adjust it with use of a growing baby. I use a liner which I lift up and it is like a holder to toss the poo in the toilet. I use Mother-Ease cloth diapers and Fuzzi Bunz. I think that diaper pin.com may have the statistics. Fuzzi Bunz website and Mother-Ease websites may have the info too. They state the environmental impact with cloth diapers, so they might state the percentages too.
  10. National Costs. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were about 19 million children under four in 2000. We could probably assume that there are about 9.5 million children under two and therefore in diapers at any one time. Based on previous studies, we estimate that 5-10% of babies wear cloth diapers at least part time. We will average these figures to 7.5% of babies in cloth diapers and 92.5% in disposables. This means that about 8.8 million babies in the U.S. are using 27.4 billion disposable diapers every year13
  11. I use cloth diapers... and make them... and I do not have a clue what percentage use each. I do know there is a very big change in mindset and a growing number of mothers are using cloth (my sales are increasing WAHOO!). Try looking at the diaperpin website... they have really neat information. www.diaperpin.com You can also look at places like diaperswappers, and in yahoo groups you'll find a large number of moms who make their own cloth diapers (I run a coop for many that do). I wish you the best in finding the information but so far i've not found it & I've done some searching. I am on a group of women that all have CD businesses, I can ask around if you'd like... you can contact me if you want me to do that. just add @yahoo.com to my id :) I hope you find the information you need :).
  12. I used cloth diapers for 2 1/2 years . Then I used disposables, only because the cloth were to small , and no other sizes were available at the time, This was 4 years ago..They were great !
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