EarthBaby saves us from mountains of dirty diapers

EarthBaby is a relatively new company - launched in April 2008 - in the San Francisco Bay Area that offers an eco-friendly solution to the disposable diaper problem faced by a lot of parents. As expectant parents, my wife and I have had a lot of consternation around the thought of tossing thousands of diapers into the local land fill when our baby is born comes in July. We toyed with the idea of using cloth diapers, but quite frankly I'm just not prepared to handle that - it's disgusting. So we were starting to prepare ourselves for the inevitability of Pampers and Huggies.

But not any more. Tonight we saw a story on the local news about EarthBaby and our problems are solved. The year-old company offers compostable diapers that they pick up and dispose of for you. So you get the convenience and benefit of great, disposable diapers without killing our natural resources. The downside is that the service is only available in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, and San Mateo counties in the Bay Area. I would love to know their expansion plans, so if anyone from the company wants to comment that would be great.