View Poll Results: Reusable nappies.....yes or no
No, I used/will use disposables
25
59.52%
Yes, I used/will use reusables
17
40.48%
Voters: 42. You may not vote on this poll
Reuseable nappies - yes or no?
17 May 2004, 08:18 AM
#32
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Cambridge
Posts: 1,428
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
One other thing that most people do not know about disposable nappies is the amount of crude oil used to create them.
For biodegradable disposables, and the canadian motherease reusable nappy system take a look at
http://www.earthlets.co.uk/
you have a liner to throw away, a velcro or popper towel part, then a cover.
they work really well, but they look huge when folded up on a small baby. Not sure it works out as financially sound as what the manufacturers claim, ie you do not used 20 disposables a day,
please also remember the cost to the environment to the manufacture of these, and the washing and drying. you would need about 30 of these towels unless you plan to do a daily wash. so they do have a large upfront cost.
For biodegradable disposables, and the canadian motherease reusable nappy system take a look at
http://www.earthlets.co.uk/
you have a liner to throw away, a velcro or popper towel part, then a cover.
they work really well, but they look huge when folded up on a small baby. Not sure it works out as financially sound as what the manufacturers claim, ie you do not used 20 disposables a day,
please also remember the cost to the environment to the manufacture of these, and the washing and drying. you would need about 30 of these towels unless you plan to do a daily wash. so they do have a large upfront cost.
17 May 2004, 08:26 AM
#33
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Bedfordshire
Posts: 4,037
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I appreciate that baby poo is not the nicest of substances to deal with, but how did people cope up until 30 years ago (a short time in our evolutionary scale). Has it got mysteriously smellier or dirtier in the last 2 decades?
17 May 2004, 01:18 PM
#34
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Feb 2000
Posts: 1,082
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
no-one's mentioned the ecological cost of re-useables
My newborn gets through at least 12 nappies a day. I would need to run at least an 80-90c boilwash per day to keep these clean, what is the impact of the electricity used by my crap washer and the detergent I'd be using compared to a high efficiency factory production line for pampers?
Joolz
p.s toh (typing one handed) as holding said stinky newborn
Joolz
p.s toh (typing one handed) as holding said stinky newborn
17 May 2004, 01:23 PM
#35
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 1999
Posts: 5,786
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by jbryant
My newborn gets through at least 12 nappies a day. I would need to run at least an 80-90c boilwash per day to keep these clean, what is the impact of the electricity used by my crap washer and the detergent I'd be using compared to a high efficiency factory production line for pampers?
Joolz
p.s toh (typing one handed) as holding said stinky newborn
Joolz
p.s toh (typing one handed) as holding said stinky newborn
Apparently, if you wash reuseables yourself, the total "ecological footprint" is half that of disposables.
If you go one step further and use a company for washing your reuseables (ie, industrial washing), the "ecological footprint" is a 1/3 of disposables.
By ecological footprint, I imagine that includes energy costs of production of nappy, total lifetime cost of maintaining it, and costs of disposal etc.
17 May 2004, 05:10 PM
#37
Guest
Posts: n/a
We went and looked at re-useables but they seemed so huge when on our nipper.. No wonder kids were bow legged in the past..with nappies and rickets they never stood a chance..
Our two year old is now potty training but in that two years she's had nappy rash once when she stayed with my mother who insisted she needed a layer of vaseline to keep her dry... Just clogged the nappy and stopped them working.. DOH!
Anyways pampers are tops..
Our two year old is now potty training but in that two years she's had nappy rash once when she stayed with my mother who insisted she needed a layer of vaseline to keep her dry... Just clogged the nappy and stopped them working.. DOH!
Anyways pampers are tops..
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Pro-Line Motorsport
Car Parts For Sale
2
29 September 2015 07:36 PM
eClaire
Non Scooby Related
75
28 July 2005 05:59 PM