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-We do not use gas guzzling panel vans. Instead, we keep routes small and concentrated so that our drivers can use their own cars or trucks, thereby using minimal gas and keeping a needless van off the road.
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-We donate our retired diapers via charitable organizations. (they’ve gone to Haiti, to flood victims, to low-income families and to animal shelters too!)
Diaperkind was founded in April 2009 by Sarah Edwards and Liz Turrigiano. After cloth diapering our own kids and home-laundering to do it, it’s become our mission to make cloth diapering accessible and manageable for everyone. In doing so, the three words that resonate at Diaperkind are Community, Environment and Respect.
All of us at DK live right here in NYC, so we share your (arm-laden, foot-swollen, sleep-deprived) steps.
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-We have a Mentor Program comprised of seasoned DK families. One of whom likely lives right around the corner from you and can drop by to show you the ropes when needed.
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-Our “Diaper House” has been built with you in mind. In addition to being diaper friendly, it’s parent and kid friendly too! So we’d love for you to come by and share some pie (Four and Twenty Blackbirds is next door!) while letting the kids run around and play.
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-We’re committed to supporting the organic cotton industry and process. And have chosen a socially (and charitably) responsible grower in Pakistan.
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-We wash several sets of diapers together in high-efficiency washer/extractors for the best water and energy efficiency.
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-We label each family’s diapers so that you’re ensured of receiving the same ones back each and every week.
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-We use a plant-derived detergent that’s been DFE Certified by the EPA. And do not use chlorine in our daily wash process.
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-We take our DK team very seriously by providing living wages and benefits.
Together, we are dedicated to this venture. We believe in cloth diapers, in this service and in the kids and families who will benefit from it. We’re dedicated to doing our part for you and for our environment. And doing it properly so that we’ll be around for you for a long, long time.
Sarah Edwards, Co-owner
Sarah was born and raised on a (still very much alive and operational) farm in Wisconsin. "On the farm, there was no city trash pick-up. There was no city.", Sarah says, "So reducing, reusing, and recycling was just how it was. Cloth diapers were treated the same as dinner plates or glass jars. You washed them and used them again. And when you outgrew them, they were passed on to their next family. I just never knew anything different."
So when Sarah had her twins, now 6, she used cloth diapers and home-laundered to do it. "It wasn't even a question of choice. The concept was just baked-in." It was during this time that she'd see postings on the parent message boards from folks wondering why there wasn't a cloth diaper service in New York City. Which inspired she and Liz to set out to change that. And so it was that diaperkind was born.
Pre-diaperkind and post-farm, Sarah was a Broadcast Producer in advertising for 17 years which had her traveling the world working on accounts including British Airways, Pfizer, ESPN, Nike and Miller Brewing. She's lived all over the nation: in Minneapolis, Seattle, Vail, Los Angeles, Dallas and now New York. She's an accomplished cook, a pathetic gardener and she suffers from travel lust. Sarah lives in Brooklyn with her husband (a Brit), their two kids and their adopted stray cat.
Liz Turrigiano, Co-owner
Though Liz was born and raised in the city, her story is fairly small town. She married her high school sweetheart and they are raising their daughter on the very streets of Brooklyn where they both grew up.
Liz’s baby, Zoe, was barely out of the hospital when she and Sarah decided to launch diaperkind. “I remember thinking that I hadn’t even put a comb through my hair since the baby arrived and now I am going to start a business! Am I insane?!”.
But the idea was too good to pass up. NYC was in desperate need of a reliable and eco-friendly cloth diaper service, so she jumped right in. Head first. With a newborn baby at home and the end of her maternity leave rapidly approaching.
Liz and Sarah met while working at Wieden + Kennedy on a campaign for the National Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. Liz, a former photographer and art buyer, was ready for a change of pace. Opening a business in her hometown seemed too good to be true. Though every so often she wonders why she traded in a life of being surrounded by photography and illustration for mounds of diapers, getting to be a part of the lives of so many new families that live around you AND feel good every day about what you are doing to help them and the planet is pretty incredible.
Liz and her husband Mark, live in Boerum Hill with their 3 year old daughter, their new puppy, Emperor Zurg and a big fat orange cat, Lincoln.
Marta Baumann, Co-owner
Marta is a native Texan who, although she can tell you a thing or two about barbecue and Six Flags Water Park, she's a state black sheep otherwise. There's no twang, there's no big hair and she's never even ridden a horse. Instead, she's a passionate vintage shopper with her own etsy site and a hopeless film buff.
Marta was a successful hair colorist for 10 years (at Toni & Guy in Dallas and Arojo Salon in Manhattan) before Liz and Sarah got their hooks into her and convinced her to leave her job to come help run diaperkind. They also convinced her to leave the LES and move a few blocks away from the "diaper house", but that's a whole other story.
Marta is the balancing force of diaperkind. Both figuratively and literally. Without her, the days would be chaos and nothing would ever get accomplished.
Marta now lives in Gowanus, with her husband Jeremy and their Frenchie, Chica.
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