Your baby has finally potty trained, and you no longer need your diapers. What do you do with them? We posted this 
question on our Facebook page, and this is what our fans had to say:
- save them for another baby
- donate them to a local diaper bank
- sell them
- donate them to a family who needs them
- use them for rags
- loan them out to friends/family
- repurposing prefolds into trainers
- donate to a friend or family member
- donate to a shelter
- donate to a foster home
We love these sustainable ideas. On this post, we would like to focus on donations. There are certainly many organizations or individuals who can benefit greatly from your donation. First look in your own community, and if you cannot donate locally, look to national or international charities. Here is a list that we have compiled for ideas on who you can donate to:
Locally and/or Nationally
- Friends/family
- Diaper banks
- Pregnancy centers
- County health departments
- Shelters
- Loaves N Fishes
- Foster Homes
Nationally:
- Cloth Cooperative: Donors offer their diapers to a recipient
- Giving Diapers, Giving Hope: Accepts diapers which are repairable
By State:
- Delaware: Operation Fluff Planet
- Florida: Cloth My Heart
- Georgia: Cloth for Every Bum
- Indiana: Heiny Helpers
- Kentucky: Tomahawk Sustainment Mission
- Maine: Cloth Diaper Maine
- Michigan: Fluffy Wishes
- North Carolina: Sweet Cheeks Diaper Kits
- Oklahoma: Cloth Diaper Oklahoma
- Texas: DFW Cloth Diaper Project
- Washington: Cutie Bondoonies Diaper Kits
- Multiple: Cotton Babies Share the Love program
International:
- Orphanages (They are always very thankful to receive diaper donations)
- Nappy Libraries (similar to diaper banks)
- Cloth For a Cause: (Canada) Accepts diapers which are repairable
Tips
- Diapers need to be clean and odor free, and free of defects so that they are useable, unless otherwise specified.
- For orphanages, they have limited water/detergent resources, and need options that are durable and easy to clean. Prefolds with covers are usually the best option for donations.
- Make sure that the diapers are clean and completely dry before storing or sending.
If you know of a charity or organization that would accept cloth diapers that I have forgotten, please let us know!
~Sonya
I was just positive that cotton babies had something going on, but I’m having trouble finding it online.
Wow i had no idea that there was ever such a thing as diaper banks. Thank you for this blog post. I will now donate that cloth diapers i an not a fan of to one.
I hope to be able to pass mine along to someone else that can use them. Hopefully someone else in my family will get in on CDing!
We are in need of some curtains for the kids’ room that can be pulled off easily (because our son likes to rip them off of the rod every morning and we would rather have them come off than have him bend or break or pull down the rod). I am thinking of using the wornout velcro from our old set of cloth diapers to attach the curtains to the rod.
Save them for future children!
I’ve been grateful that someone loaned me their newborn diapers so it would be a little more practical to cloth diaper part-time as my baby was really tiny at birth and didn’t quite fit into most of the diapers I had purchased. The few newborn diapers I did purchase, I’m letting another friend borrow for her baby. They might as well be getting some use while I’m not using them.
Cool, I never thought about donating them. I just figured you passed them on if you were lucky enough to know someone who wanted used diapers
I didn’t know there were so many places to donate cloth diapers. This is great info!
I use the flats for cleaning
Hi Jill,
Yes, Cotton Babies has a Share the Love program, and I am waiting to hear if they take all brands of diapers.
~Sonya
As of now I plan to save my diapers for future babies
But when I am done having babies I would love to donate them to moms in need 
I like the idea of donating, I’m passing some of the diapers I don’t use to a friend that is starting her stash
I’m hoping to keep mine for a second baby. But this is good info for when we’re finished!
I loaned my small nb stash to a friend to use on her nb here in a couple of weeks, though if trend holds he’ll only fit in them for about 2 weeks because he’ll be so big at birth. I was planning to resell them after that, but I’ll have to consider donating, just wish there was an organization here in CO I could easily donate to. Are diaper donations tax-deductible?
When we are through diapering we will use our prefolds as cleaning rags and donate any others, or sell if they’re still in good shape!
We have been able to use most if not all for our 2nd and most are still usable for our 3rd! I am definitely thinking of donating some of mine to the local high school for their economics program to expose some students to the idea of using cloth too
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