This may sound counter-intuative, but disposables are better for the environment.
Cloth has to be washed which causes water polution.
Yup, when my oldest was born, the environmental verdict was still in favour of cloth. Since she did not react that well on paper, I have used cloth for her for a long time.
When they youngest was born, the tides began to change. The use of plastic in the disposables stopped. A couple of years after that, disposables could be discarded with the green waste, to be composted. And I have not seen cloth advised for environmental reasons since.
I've used cloth with my youngest for almost a year. Motivated also by her hips. She was on the brink of needing a splint for hip-dysplasia. I had heard from the orthopaedic instrument maker that using double cloth diapers was advised in cases like that, when disposables weren't common yet. It was enough. She did not need the splint.
When she was 11 months, I had a horrible flu, the washing became too much for a few weeks, and I did not get back to cloth after that.