[sfpotter]

Cloth shopping bags are a really bad comparison here.

Some things working in favor of cloth diapers here are general greening of the grid, mitigating issues with electricity consumption.

Beyond that, line drying diapers works very well and even preserves the life of the diapers.

Cloth diapers hold their value extremely well and can easily be bought/sold/given away on sites like OfferUp or groups like Buy Nothing.

ALso, "2 car trips per week": do you have no idea how this works? No diaper service in their right mind would send out cars to make bespoke trips to individuals. They're done using a big truck on a schedule to amortize the cost of pick up and drop off as much as possible.