Why Choose 100% Reusable Cloth Diapers?

100% Reusable cloth diapers are the right choice for the planet

We can't keep buying products knowing that we will be throwing them away after only a short period of use. Disposable products create waste, whether that waste is sent to a landfill for 1000 years, flushed and disposed of through wastewater treatment, or composted and disposed of as yard waste. Reusable products do not create waste. Cloth diapers use fewer resources in their manufacture, distribution, use, and disposal.

Announcing the 100% Reusable Cloth Diapers Campaign

The Real Diaper Association announces the 100% Reusable Cloth Diapers Campaign to help parents choose reusable cloth diapers every time, all the time. For the next year we will ask the experts for advice on overcoming any difficulties cloth diapering parents may face.

Who are the experts? They are experienced cloth diapering parents willing to share what they know with new parents, health care providers, and others.

You are the experts! Parents who find 100% reusable solutions in every cloth diapering situation have valuable tips and techniques to share with those who are struggling to succeed.

How Can I Participate?

Spread your knowledge and experience face-to-face in Real Diaper Circles, with friends and family, or online. See below for ways that you can join efforts with other cloth diaperers to help parents and caregivers overcome obstacles to using 100% reusable cloth diapers.

Phase One > Supporting Parents with Cloth Diapers Through the Night - - COMPLETE

The first area we focused on was nighttime cloth diapering. RDA collected tips to succeeding with 100% reusable cloth diapers all night and compiled those answers into a tip sheet for parents new to or struggling with nighttime cloth diapering.

Phase Two > Help Parents Succeed with Cloth Diapers While Traveling - - COMPLETE!

Next we focused on travel. We collected advice for traveling with cloth diapers. We've compiled this advice into a tip sheet that you can print and use for your summer vacations!

Phase Three > Support parents in caring for their cloth diapers - - WE NEED YOUR HELP!

We have all tried different laundering routines to best meet our cloth diapering needs. What tricks have you discovered to best care for your cloth diapers? Share your tips for laundering cloth diapers here, and please be specific about the types of diapers you are laundering and the quality of water you have.

If you are currently struggling with this subject, remember that our laundering processes differ for a number of reasons, including type and fabric of diapers, water quality, and skin sensitivities, among other things. Find some tips from parents on caring for your cloth diapers here. We will compile this advice into a tip sheet in a couple of months and release it for public use.

Long-time cloth diaper advocates

RDA wants to hear how you support parents and caregivers in using 100% reusable cloth diapers. Are you an advocate? A business owner? A blogger? Tell us what you’re doing to help parents choose 100% reusable cloth diapers. We have a badge for you, too! Get your own RDA 100% Support Badge.

Want to see how other people are supporting cloth diaperers?

We Choose Cloth Diapers

Real Diaper Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to cloth diaper education and activism. If you want to use cloth diapers, our volunteers can help you. The volunteers, staff, and board of directors who represent Real Diaper Association are all people who are dedicated to increasing the use of simple, reusable cloth diapers. We are not a diapering choices organization. We will not tell you what diapers you should and shouldn’t use, and we won’t give the media a spicy anti-any-diaper quotation. We make no judgments about the choices of others. We support and promote products that are 100% reusable and we affiliate ourselves with manufacturers who are similarly committed to reusability. Our members can count on us to hold true to our organizational mission.

Cloth diapers are real diapers. We love cloth diapers!