m59.    How do diapers affect the environment?

Disposable diapers make life easier. Eighteen billion are used each year in the U.S. They make up 2-4% of municipal solid waste and take 200 ­ 500 years to degrade. However, laundering cloth diapers produces 9 times as much air pollution, 10 times as much water pollution, and consumes 6 times more water and 3 times more energy as disposables.  

e10.    Why do organisms become extinct?

e18.    Does water recover from pollution?

e20.    What are environmental hazards and risks?

g04.    What causes climates to change?

g18.    What is energy?