[Solved] Nappies!!

MJC,

This is a good place to post this or alternatively it could have been posted to the Fathering Children board. Either are good 😀

Gooner

Try these http://www.spiritofnature.co.uk/acatalo ... kw=nappies

They give you the ECO values and the ease of disposables.

i hope they work

Thanks

we tried the natural nappies but the amount of washing was out of this world. i don't think they're any better for the environment if you look at electricity, hot water, washing at high temperatues, flushing those inner things down the loo etc. they take ages to dry too unless you're going to use a tumble drier. i guess the only benefit is saving a bit of space in landfill but think of all the tissues and wipes you go through anyway!i don't think it's too healthy to have loads of pooey nappies hanging around waiting to be washed, particularly not if your child gets a virus or something.

we just go for an eco range of disposable nappies now. good luck!

I totally agree, whilst "ECO" nappies are great when you add in all the additional costs involved are they worth it ?

All you can do is go for the most bio-degradeable option.

happy choosing !!

Maybe a [censored] bank could be deisgned; all your nappies are stored up and then once a fortnight you can trot on down to the local supermarket and deposit them. They could be used to make some type of fuel. Maybe there could be a collaboration between supermarkets and well known chains of burger bar. The supermarket could recycle the nappies and reuse them while the burger bar could improve the quality of there product with the waste.

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@john man: 😀 D )

@bowldeover: thanks for the site, It had an interesting Nappy Guide saying:
As a rough guideline:
Newborns need to be changed around 10-12 times a day and before or after every night feed.
Babies under 6 months need to be changed 8-10 times a day (around every 2½ hours) and before/after every night feed. This can be increased to every 4 hours when your baby starts to drop night feeds and gets older.
Babies/toddlers over 6 months need changing around every 4 hours.
Toddlers over 12 months usually need changing around 4 times a day – depending on when they dirty their nappy.

I hadn't thought about the frequency of changing before now.... I dunno about others, but I seem to be changing our 3 month old 4 times a day (sometimes 5).
It strikes me that one aspect of being 'eco' is to discern 'do I need to change this nappy now, is it full, has little one solied in it'
I could easily go through some 8 or 10 nappies if i changed it for the smallest bit of wee, but I don't feel the need to be a 'consumer of a product' just because it is quick and easy to do so. By observing how comfortable and content baby is then a nappy could be used until it is very reasonably full.

Anyway, I am currently using ordinary disposable nappies (and sort of feel guilty about it - especially after just trying to search on how long they can last in landfill).

I found this interesting on a normal disposable manufacturer's website
Biodegradable nappies can’t degrade much in landfill
Landfill sites are engineered to be stable and low in moisture. In Australia, landfills are so dry and compact they tend to “mummify” their contents. As a result, nothing much breaks down in landfill – even newspapers, which are 100% degradable, remain intact and legible for decades. This means a biodegradable nappy in landfill is normally not given the chance to biodegrade.
(Virtually all nappies you put in your garbage bin end up in landfill.)
However, at Huggies, we understand you may still be concerned about the volume of your disposable nappies going to landfill (see Nappies make up around 1% of landfill ).
That’s why we have focused on a real issue in landfill management and reduced the volume, or bulk, of our nappies, to reduce the space they take up in landfill. We have lessened the bulk of Huggies nappies by 50% over the past 10 years by improving the absorbency and performance of the nappy.

thanks for your interesting question.... it certainly got me searching on the net.
/orange

haha love the ideas and thanks for getting back to me. I'll have a good look at the available options and weigh it all up. If i'm honest, it's the smell of them hanging around I'm concerned with! and the fact that the washing is piled up as it is!! Oh what to do???

Cheers for the advice, most appreciated - at least I'll know what I'm talking about now!!!

Some twenty odd years ago we used cloth nappies with three of our children back then.
We kept the nappy buckets (with lids) in the bathroom, so the smell seemed to be in an appropriate place.
The other thing we used to do was to add 'something' to the bucked so the germs/smell were managed to some extent.
Sorry but I can't remember what we used to add.

We had a brief go at using shaped cloth nappies about 3 years ago but it was a lot of work. In my experience they 'filled up' with only small puddles of wee. Adding a booster cloth marginally improved this. The other thing I felt was that it seemed quite easy for their bottom to get sore.

I saw a documentary once about how they turned recycled nappies in Holland into a material used in the building trade to cover rooves. I can't remember where in Holland nor the name of the company but it shows what can be done. Where there's a will there's a way.

I remember my family was all raised with the cotton nappies. Washing in buckets with a detergent call "Jick" cleaned all the excrement off . I think we have become too complacent in todays society because of readily available items such as tumble dryers, washing machines etc and also easier things to dispose off because it is someonelses job to deal with our smelly rubish.
We do not safe leftover foods because there will be more tomorrow. This concept of plenty from where it came from has driven us and our children to consume more.

If we can empty litter for our pets or pick the mess after the Dog has done it's business why can't we clean nappies?