The lowly cloth diaper May not be all that green

A folded cotton reusable fabric used to be common as a diaper in India before the aggressively marketed disposables. Washington Post published an article that shows that the reusable may have higher carbon foot print than the disposable.
This may need some further investigation as I feel that a reusable diaper that is not machine laundered may still have an edge. Machine washing (and drying) in India is not common , at least in most places.
Some of the technical evaluations that leave out culture differences may lead to wrong conclusions.
What is the CEans take on this?
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