I happened to see an article in USA Today, I believe, yesterday (just
happened to pick it up at the airport) which summarized a study showing that
wearing disposable diapers may lead to infertility and testicular cancer in
boys and later men, due to the higher temperatures from the plastic. To
establish the greater temperature generated by the plastic diapers, they
used micro-thermometers on the babies. Sorry I can't provide more detail,
but hopefully you can still find the story.
Another related item: the California Resource Recovery Association is
planning to push for a change in Medicare funding that favors disposable
over cloth diapers for adults. Medicare will pay for disposables but not
cloth.
Heidi Feldman
Public Education Coordinator
Monterey Regional Waste Management District
Tel.: 831/384-5313 FAX: 831/384-3567
When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of
the world.
John Muir
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