Negative Essay: Environmentally Friendly Baby Gifts

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Environmentally Friendly Baby Gifts
If you have ever been to a baby shower, then you know the types of gifts that are given at a baby shower. Tons of toys, gender-neutral onesies, disposable diapers, that sort of thing. While those are useful gifts, have you ever stopped to think about the environmental impact of all those disposable products that get given as gifts to babies? Well, the answer is that they end up in landfills, since most of the products do not last long enough to be given to the next baby or given away to friends when they have a baby. Billions of dollars of baby toys and clothing end in up landfills. So, if you have to go to a baby shower in the near future, why not consider giving the expecting parents only gifts that are environmentally friendly. Not only will the gifts …show more content…

They can only be used once and then they are thrown away to rot in a landfill. So, if you are in the market for an environmentally friendly, useful baby shower gift, then you might want to consider getting a disposable diaper. Now there are a lot of different types of disposable diaper and a lot of different materials. But, my personal favorite (and the favorite of many parents) are wool diapers; specifically Disana organic wool diapers (I just like Disana because you can get them easily off Amazon, but you can use any brand of wool diaper that is convenient for you). Wool diapers are both anti-bacterial and absorbent, meaning they are very resistant against any messes. They are easy to clean. Plus, in the summer time, the wool diapers can act as regular summer shorts for the baby. Think about how many diapers your average family goes through in a year? Well, a single baby only needs 4-5 wool diapers to be completely covered. While wool diapers may seem expensive, consider that you will likely never need to replace them; where as a typical family needs to buy hundreds of diapers a

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