BabyTweetyBird said:
All major corporate makers abandoned plastic in favor of the dreaded woven nylon fabric shortly after the start of the millennium to make bigger profit and cut production costs.
That's a shame, I'm so lucky I grew up with that generation of disposable baby diapers back in the early 90s. I figured the diaper producers like Kimberly-Clark (Depends and Huggies), and Proctor and Gamble (Luvs and Pampers) would phase out plastic backed ones (likely due to environmental issues, since the plastics would of take thousands of years to biodegrade in the landfills). The plastic-backed ones may have also costed more to produce for Kimberly-Clark and P&G.
I miss the days when the big brands made plastic backed ones, even I would preserve them, never to be solid (besides the environmental and landfill issues and becoming harder to find new old stock ones). But luckily, we still have the ABDL products (even I would preserve those too).
I bet by now, the value of these new-old stock plastic-backed era Depends, Huggies, Pampers, and Luvs might even go up just for the plastic-backed ban.
This also kind of reminds me when raincoats (another personal "fetish" that I love along with diapers) started transition to
Gore-Tex after previously relying on mostly rubber and especially
vinyl (a.k.a. PVC) for many decades all because of concerns with vinyl being toxic and cancerous than rubber or Gore-Tex. Yet, the one thing I still love about vinyl raincoats and ponchos, is the shininess (even when its dry). The only downside is that vinyl and rubber raincoats and ponchos are not quite as ventilated compared to Gore-Tex and may still have that "chemical smell" (typically on vinyl ones). But even on a cooler autumn or early spring rainy day, I still love wearing them (sometimes, even without a hoodie or a sweatshirt).
This also reminds me of when McDonalds started to phase out the Styrofoam food packaging around as early as 1991 or so. Before when they banned Styrofoam packaging, I heard that the food used to taste better back then compared to the cardboard packaging they have now. And all just for environmental and landfill reasons since the Styrofoam also takes thousands of years to biodegrade like old plastic-backed diapers in the landfill.
But as for plastic-backed diapers, I would still love to preserve them as a "tribute" before when the big brands started to move on to woven nylon fabric. I even would love to dress my Pokémon plushies in them.
