Everything you need to know about reusable nappies.

 

Choosing reusable nappies Most mums have no idea there is a choice about nappies – that’s why UK customers spend a staggering £40 million a year on so-called disposable nappies. At around £5.50 a packet for a household brand like Huggies, the cost mounts up. Even children who are potty-trained quickly are in nappies for a minimum two years (and more likely three). It’s usually at least another six months before they will be dry throughout the night; and you can expect lots of set backs, especially if your child starts or changes nursery, moves house, goes on holiday or is ill. Infants whiz through nappies (they may need 10 nappy changes a day), but the quantity decreases as the baby grows older. Deciding which kind of nappies to use doesn’t have to be an all reusable or only disposable decision, but knowing that you are not contributing to the 800,000 tonnes of dirty nappies dumped in landfill every year is an extremely good feeling. Around 8 million plastic disposables a day go to landfill and each nappy can take up to 500 years to decompose. If King James had worn plastic disposables, his nappies would have only just decomposed. There are all sorts of reusable nappies available that can be washed at home. There are also services which provide clean nappies each week when they collect the dirty ones. Environmentally, a nappy-laundering service wins – despite the amount of fuel needed to deliver to your doorstep – because of the energy efficiency of washing large quantities at one time. One London mum found that her nappy laundry service was less than £10 a week. It also saved her family the daily washing machine wear and tear, increased water use and the chore of washing and drying nappies regularly.     Article source: http://www.familiesonline.co.uk

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