Disposables, cloth. Cloth, disposables. Fifty years after Procter & Gamble introduced affordable throwaway diapers, dubbing them Pampers, the battle over baby's bottom rages on. The brand brought on a ...

A few weeks shy of my daughter’s due date, I started doing research on the best biodegradable diapers on the market, hoping this would somehow make my newborn and me a bit more eco-friendly. I never ...

MANKATO — New parents have a choice to make about how to contain byproducts their bundles of joy leave behind. For many moms and dads, the environment and safe chemicals are factors as important as ...

Marion Donovan demonstrates the "Boater," around 1950. Marion O'Brien Donovan Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History © Smithsonian Institution ...

Now that there is a great deal of discussion about banning plastic bags (“Cuyahoga poised to ban plastic bags,” May 5), perhaps there are other areas that should be looked at, such as plastic beverage ...