May 2008
Diaper Service
The average baby produces one ton of used diapers. To help stem this considerable contribution to waste and general pollution, Thomas Frasch and Dominik Meyer have opened Munich’s only cloth diaper delivery service. Every week the
Windelservice delivers washed diapers and picks up the used ones in complimentary air-tight containers. The diapers consist of thick, 50-centimeter-long cloth, and pants with a hook-and-eye fastener. Frasch and Meyer deliver their goods in a car run on natural gas, which decreases environmental pollution. Even though the service is more expensive than a pack of disposable diapers, employing the service is not only a good deed to the environment. Plastic diapers do not breath well, and the damp heat fosters bacteria and fungus. Infants also wean from cloth diapers up to half a year earlier than with synthetic, since they become more sensitive to their own wet discomfort. For more information on this alternative—one long ago successfully tested by our grandparents and great-grandparents—see
www.windelservice.de or visit Frasch & Mayer’s new shop at Plinganser-strasse 6, where the team of fathers also sells ecological products for little ones. <<<
