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gDiapers Starter Kit, Large | 
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| Brand: gDiapers
Category: Health And Beauty
List Price: $26.99
Buy New: $22.99
You Save: $4.00 (15%)
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 21419
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 6 x 5 x 4
UPC: 187006000026
EAN: 0187006000026
ASIN: B0019I8JXC
Release Date: May 14, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | gDiapers Starter Kit, Large, offers convenient, "green" alternative to traditional disposable diapers | | • | Decomposable diaper liners are completely flushable | | • | Contain no plastic components; breathable "little g" pants keep baby's skin healthier | | • | Starter Kit contains 2 "little g" pants; 10 liners | | • | "Large" size for children 26 to 36 pounds |
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Product Description
gDiapers Starter Kit Earth-friendly hybrid diaper. Flush, compost or toss. Not cloth. Not disposable. The new earth-friendly hybrid diaper you can flush, compost or toss. gDiapers consist of a washable, breathable cloth outer pant -- a ‘little g’ -- and a plastic-free refill you can flush, compost or toss. Getting started with gDiapers gDiapers Starter Kit contains everything you need to try gDiapers: 2 pairs of 'little g' pants (golden orange & genuine vanilla bean), and 10 flushable refills. Why are gDiapers good for the planet? No landfill required. 50 million disposable diapers enter the landfill every day, where they sit for up to 500 years. gDiapers are plastic-free, so they break down in 50-150 days. gDiapers are cradle to cradle certified which means that everything that goes into making the refill is reabsorbed by the planet in a neutral or helpful way.
Amazon.com Product Description
A baby in disposable diapers puts an average of 6,000 diapers into the landfills by the time he or she is potty trained -- and those plastic-based diapers take about 500 years to decompose. What's an environmentally conscious parent to do? With gDiapers, you can have the convenience of disposable diapers and avoid doing damage to the planet. In fact, gDiapers even help the environment. Get started with this gDiapers Starter Kit which can be used on babies or toddler 26 to 36 pounds in weight.  | gDiapers offer: - Flushable, decomposable diapers that offer an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional disposables
- Breathable, non-plastic diapering system that keeps baby's skin healthier
- Starter Kit that contains everything you need to begin using gDiapers
|  | |  |  Flushable, Decomposable Diapers
The gDiaper consists of a machine-washable, reusable cotton "little g pant" and a snap-in, reusable waterproof liner, which contains the diaper refill. These refills are decomposable. Containing no plastic products, they're made from sustainably farmed wood fluff pulp, sodium polyacrylate (SAP), which provides absorbency, and cellulose rayon. And they can be flushed down the toilet, which has a couple of wonderful benefits. First, it eliminates the need to keep smelly diapers around in a diaper pail. Second, it keeps unnecessary waste out of the landfills. And finally, the entire contents of the diaper gets processed by sewage treatment plants, which return treated, completely sanitized solids to be converted into valuable fertilizer. It's recycling at its best! If you're unable to flush the liners, they can still be thrown in the trash without guilt, since they will decompose in 50 to 150 days -- a much better turnaround than their plastic counterparts. And, if you're a gardener, you can simply throw the wet liners in your compost bin. (Note: for sanitary reasons, never put poopy diapers in the compost.) As Easy As Traditional Disposables -- but Healthier
The "little g pant" itself sports an adorable style and trim silhouette, and it's available in several cool colors. With easy-to-use rear Velcro closures, the little g pant is just as easy to put on a baby as traditional disposable diapers -- no pins to deal with here. Plus, its breathable qualities help keep baby's skin healthier by minimizing diaper rash. Get Started!
Everything you need to get started is included in the handy Starter Kit: two little g pants in trendy "Great Orange" and "Vanilla Bean" colors, suitable for boys or girls, each with two snap-in liners; 10 flushable diaper refills; a "swishstick" to aid with flushing; and a Handy User's Guide (H.U.G). The "Large" Starter Kit is for children 26 to 36 pounds in weight; small and medium sizes are available for babies and smaller children, so you can start with gDiapers in any stage of your child's pre-potty-training life.  | Starter kits come in three sizes: |  |  |  |
Tips for Successful gDiaper Use
Some plumbing systems may have problems with the flushable liners, including systems with tree-infested pipes; non-standard plumbing systems, including grinders or house traps; and septic tanks, which require close monitoring to make sure the outflow is clear. It is recommended that only poopy diapers be put into septic systems, and wet ones be composted. But even if your plumbing system won't accept the gDiaper flushables, you can always simply throw them in the trash where they'll quickly decompose, making a much more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional disposable diapers. | Stock up on flushable diaper refills: |  |
What's in the Box
Two pairs of large-sized `little g' pants (Great Orange and Genuine Vanilla Bean), 10 flushable diaper refills, swishstick, and Handy User's Guide (H.U.G.). |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 The "g" doesn't stand for "green!" May 21, 2009
lucidlemur (Portland, OR)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm a civil engineering student, and one of my classes actually studied this as an example of "greenwashing" (marketing a product as sustainable when it's really not). When I saw that people were reviewing these and saying how great they are for the environment, I had speak up . . .
Consider this diaper being flushed down your toilet. The city's water system then uses energy to pump the diaper all the way across town to the sewage treatment plant. Because these diapers take 50-150 days to decompose, the diaper is still intact when it reaches the plant. There, it's screened out from the liquid waste, along with other debris that has made its way into sewage lines. Any guesses where that debris goes? Yep, straight to the landfill! You might as well just throw these diapers in the trash and have them go to the landfill directly -- it would save energy.
The company also tries to sell these diapers based on how quickly they decompose. But the fact is that even biodegradable products barely decompose at all in landfills: they're compacted so tightly among all the other trash that microorganisms can't do their decomposition work.
I know I'm not technically reviewing this product in the sense of giving my experience using it, but I thought these facts were important. I would want to know them before buying diapers! I can see that a lot of people like these diapers because they're easy to use and don't stink up the house. I think the company should stick to marketing them for those reasons, and not make false claims about being "green."
 LOVE these diapers! February 17, 2009
Xina143 (Culpeper, VA USA)
Reading about these diapers, heck I was confused. There is an outer liner, and then an inner liner, and then you put the pad on the inner liner, strap the diaper on backwards...huh? But I decided to give them a shot anyways. We use cloth diapers for our 14 month old, but I am always on the lookout for something that is better, these seem to fit the bill.
I ordered the starter pack and it came with two outer lines-a cream one and an orange one. Both are made of soft material, and I really like the soft seams around the edges. There is an inner liner that you snap into the out one, you place the pad on the inner liner and strap baby in!
Opening up the pad took a few tries, but once you get it, it is nice to simply rip it open and flush the whole thing down the toilet. We have not had any problems with leaking, and my son has not had any diapers rashes since we started using them.
I would recommend these to any parent!
I Love gDiapers! February 11, 2009
Lani D. Stover (Sunny Florida)
GBaby diapering system is an awesome combo of cloth and disposables. We have been using them for several months now and they are easy to use and I feel much better about the environmental effects as opposed to regular disposables. I have tried many other cloth diapers and always had a problem with leakage and diaper rash.
I have tried flushing the Gbaby inserts, and they flush well in the toilet, however I prefer just throwing them away in the garbage. I stuck one in my compost tumlber to see what happened and it did break down relatively quickly. Overall I am very satisfied with them.
Great buy November 22, 2008
Sprite Nevada
The Starter kit, if you're thinking about buying G diapers, is alot cheaper to buy several of than to buy one and several covers of. Depending on what you use them for, trips or everyday, you may need a two or three starters or more. The new design is better, it doesn't leak with just one insert but change baby often. Stick to the two hour rule, for those of you who don't know it, every two hours if you can't smell anything, you check. If it smells, you change it. This is not like disposible diapers where people leave them on for four-six hours at a time and the thing just keeps absorbing urine. If that is your practice you aren't going to like these things, they will leak, they are not made to balloon up. FYI Please don't do that! It does cause a red chemical burns and will cause your baby to fuss and scream in pain when you put them in the bath. This is common sense, comes straight out of every baby book, not medical advice (insert not lible yada yada) please feel free to take it or not but you'd be suprised how many people have this problem. Frankly it's a huge petpeeve of mine. It hurts the baby and that hurts my heart. Plus the smell makes other kids leary of playing with your kid and me wanting to sit next to you with that stink. My son's cloth diapers will keep a bad smell in better than some of those disposiables, so there's many reasons to change them. The smell is just worse, if that will motivate where your baby won't. Frankly I dislike disposibles, they are hard on the bottom, even some of the biodegradable corn ones and expensive. These however aren't bad on the bum. But they do fall into the disposible trap, they are just too expensive to use daily. If you buy inserts all at once you can write to the company for a discount or try finding one threw the stores online. But you are better off buying AIO online at the big evil chain store (I can't put the name down so I thought everyone would recognize the reference?). For eighty bucks you can have diapered your kid for life, rather than one month. Please take the advice in kindness, if it sounds preachy thats because it is a pet peeve, it isn't meant to sound so.
 Love them! November 18, 2008
LLP
I'm the mother of two boys (and another child on the way). My first is potty trained and I used disposible only on him. I was starting to feel a little guilty about how much we've contributed to landfills so I decided to try out G diapers on my 2 year old. He has eczema so my first concern was that his skin wouldn't tolerate the materials. However, this was not the case. For the first week his skin seemed a little dry but this must have been triggered by something else or maybe he just grew tolerant of the materials. The only leaks we've had have been at night. Our son sleeps 12 hrs per night. I've tried to double up as suggested on the gdiaper website but the liner didn't stay in place. Maybe after more practice I'll get it right. However, the leaks at night were confined to the diaper and pj pants, they were not bad enough to wet the crib sheets. My husband refuses to try and flush the liners (he thinks anything other that disposibles is weird) but I still feel better about the fact that the liners will biodegrade instead of sitting in a landfill. These diapers don't require too much extra effort and so far, its been worth it. Plus, they look so cute!
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