Are disposable diapers contaminating our water sources since that sewage is not treated?
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As many disposable diapers that are used every day and saturated with human waste and then thrown into our landfills I don't see how it cannot be a problem.
For one, those diapers takes literally decades to decay into nothing and the human wastes filter down through the layers of trash and into the ground.
Landfills are already, in most areas, required to have a liner in the bottom to keep liquid waste contained in order to keep it from filtering down. Not only human waste but other liquid chemicals that get thrown away improperly.
If that liner leaks then all those chemicals and waste can get into our drinking water systems. . . . yummy! That is why I won't wear disposable diapers. I'm incontinent and have to wear diapers 24 / 7 and I use cloth so that I am not a part of this problem. It's bad enough to have to wear them without also contributing to another major problem.
I hope everyone that uses diapers, either for themselves or their babies that they think seriously about this. What would it be like if you just started to pile those diapers up in your own back yard. How long do you think it would take to build a mountain of used diapers? Would you want that sitting there until your child is old enough to add his children's diapers to the pile? Would you want that smell and all that waste filtering down into the ground in your back yard? Well that's what we do in landfills, we put that trash in someone else's back yard.
Good luck.
probably not because trash just gets melted/burned in dumps
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