I’ve always professed that every baby should wear cloth diapers; however, with my son wearing one diaper in 24 hours, it takes a long time to make a diaper load of laundry.
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When is it OK to use a Disposable (Landfill) Diaper?
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Submitted by ecochildsplay on Fri, 2008-08-01 13:49. | Tags: culture | chlorine | cloth diapers | diapers | dioxin | gdiapers | landfill | Seventh generation | toilet learning | toilet training

Great Lakes...Er, Not So Great!
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For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially “alarming information†as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates.
Submitted by jerryjamesstone on Thu, 2008-02-07 22:59. | Tags: nature | Breast Cancer | Cancer | colon cancer | dioxin | great lakes | infant health | lead | lung cancer | mercury | PCBs | pesticides | pollution

Dioxin ice cream
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Mmmm... ice cream.. triple-choc, caramel swirl, dioxin... dioxin?? Finland dairy goods producer Valio is withdrawing ice cream from stores as imported guar gum used in production was detected to have high levels of dioxin. The contamination issue isn't confined to Finland or just ice cream.