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Nappy days for Blackpool's landaus
Blackpool Gazette, UK - Jun 6, 2008
What do you think about the nappies? Leave your comments below. The move comes after Blackpool Council's decided to make them mandatory part of the drivers' ...
Householders in Plymouth complain of the Binquisition
Times Online, UK - May 28, 2008
Does your baby use disposable nappies? Do you have difficulty seeing outside in the dark? Is pushing a heavy object on wheels too much for you or for anyone ...
Ask Aggie: Cleaning roller blinds and maintaining septic tanks
Times Online, UK - May 16, 2008
Nappies, sanitary items and condoms should not be disposed of into the system. 5. Don?t use the toilet or kitchen sink as a rubbish bin ? never dispose of ...
Paceville bars and clubs to monopolise drink
Malta Today, Malta - May 26, 2008
As though if you drink too much at a club table rather than on the street would make a difference, except to the club?s coffers. ...
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FACT SHEET HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE
H YOU, HOWCIS IT, H TREATED, H PREVENTED - NSW Public Health Bulletin - publish.csiro.au
... HOW CAN IT AFFECT YOU? ... before eating, after wiping noses, and after changing nappies
or soiled ... Wipe the nose and mouth with tissues, dispose of used tissues ...

[PDF] Vessel Operation -
AEF Tour, PY Trip - griffith.edu.au
... solvents, oil, emulsifiers, paints, poisons, disposable nappies and sanitary ... only
as much cleaner as you need, use ... and either recycle these or dispose of at a ...
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[BOOK] If You Want God to Help You
DR Rhodes - 2006 - books.google.com
... That's why it's time that you stop your blithe lip service, seize the bull by the
horns, and confess that you have a pressing problem and dispose of it. ...
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[BOOK] See You in Court: A Social Worker's Guide to Presenting Evidence in Care Proceedings
L Davis - 2007 - books.google.com
... Lynn Davis Page 2. See You in Court Page 3. of related interest ... Page 4. See You in
Court A Social Worker's Guide to Presentinj Evidence in Care Proceedings ...

[BOOK] The Inner Voice: God Is Calling You
C Jones - 2006 - books.google.com
... Why is their beauty You see, but I'm blinded of Your uniqueness of me. ... Why is my
hair short, long, kinky, nappy, and curly, whatever it may be? ...
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Coping strategies of children with faecal incontinence -
L Ludman, L Spitz - Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 1996 - Elsevier
... ably would not want to know you, or sit next to you.? Another young ... taught to take
care of themselves and could change and dispose of their nappies or pads ...

[DOC] Dr. Xargle?s Book of Earthlets
J Willis - Reading, 2006 - docushare.southsanisd.net
... Bath-time, feeding and changing nappies are all given a ... sure that they understand
how to dispose of leftover ... possible, set up the lab before you leave school ...

[PDF] The Implementation and Evaluation of Cotton Nappy Provision at East Surrey Hospital Maternity Unit -
D Uzzell, R Leach - 2003 - surrey.ac.uk
... If the hospital were going to provide nappies would you have preferred a ... to be easier
for parents to buy, use and dispose of, than cotton nappies were to ...

[PDF] The Little Green Book
J Pearce - 1995 - gaiaworld.org
... ?How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... If we do not own the freshness
of the air and the sparkly of the water, how can you buy them. ...

[PDF] A Helping Hand
Y Ceredigion - ymlaenceredigion.org.uk
... Practical Suggestions on being 'green' in Ceredigion Including how to use renewable
energy at home, recycle waste, conserve water ... You can make a difference ...
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Nappies: are you quite ready to dispose of them completely?

Baby boy (6-9 months) looking over shoulder

The great nappy debate: read the battle of the blogs

Terrific news for anyone who gives a stuff about the environment or is curiously irritated because Huggies calls its sleep pants “DryNites”. Aren't our children already illiterate enough?

Anyway, disposable nappies are having a PR crisis. More babies now wear the re-usable, square-cloth type than at any time since the 1970s as righteous earth mothers strike a blow against the unbiodegradable evil that is the throwaway nappy, what with its weird-smelling granules for absorbing wee and the toxically fragranced nappy sacks, which, frankly, just make a stinky situation worse.

Mintel reckons that usage of washable nappies rose by 6 per cent in 2005-07, an increase largely assumed to be down to the eco-conscious middle class. As a spokesman for Green Baby says: “Everybody's getting too posh for Pampers now.”

Very good. But maybe such parents should hesitate before patting themselves heartily on the back. For a start didn't the Environment Agency produce a report that said that when you factor in electricity, water and detergents, disposable nappies were no worse for the environment than re-usable ones? Yes, here it is - May 2005.

If they really want to make a statement they should go hardcore and join the DiaperFreeBaby organisation in America, which advocates the use of no nappies at all! Members believe that nappies are unnecessary because babies are “aware of their elimination needs from birth and communicate about those needs through various vocal and bodily signals”. See? Simply read the gurning expression on your infant's face and, bingo, you can swoop in like an owl and dangle him over the potty. Yes, it all makes using cloth nappies seem a tad lightweight. As less posh parents might say, maybe it's time to s*** or get off the pot?

The modern nappy is brilliant and should remain. The nappies should be displaced into a separate bin for collection by the councils, who in turn should carbonize them using waste heat from the power stations exhausts. Carboning is the process of heating a material in an non oxygenated atmosphere.

Jim Wills, Brisbane, Australia

I suppose the neo-enviros wont be happy until we all live in thatch houses and sleep in dirt. Rest assured another crises will happen to take our thatch away. Then tax us about it. Leave me alone and let me live in peace. Stop judging and passing sentence on how we live. Who are you to me?

William, Atlanta, USA

May I suggest a compromise approach based on experience? Use disposable nappies for the first few months when there's lots of brown runny stuff to deal with, and reusables when there's lots of solid brown stuff.

The other advantage of reusables is toddlers potty trained around 18 months.

Alex, Tunbridge Wells,

Mark, more yuck than the thousands of tons of human waste in landfill? It's really quite bizarre that it's not classed as biohazard...

Tracy, Holmfirth,

Disposable diapers are not cheap and given the rate at which the cost of living is rising, I would suggest that the 6% increase in washable nappy sales is more likely linked to saving money than to environmental issues.

Elizabeth Crow, Warsaw, Poland

It's a slippery slope with Green Fundamentalism (ad absurdum) and no abate at sight.

Vickie, Tel-Aviv,

The EA report talk about the energy consumed - what about the earth resources used and disposed of - surely it makes sense to re-use. Use green energy to wash them - then they cannot argue. Not sure biodegradable disposables degrade surrounded by no-degradable rubbish in landfill.

Russell Davis, London, England

A 6% rise is hardly significant.

Mark, Westminster, London, UK

Reusable nappies? Yuck!

Mark, Harrogate, England

How about a happy compromise? Biodegradable disposable nappies? Nature, Moltex, Bambo Nature!!! Yippee for technology!

M, Hoylake, UK

That Enviromental Agency Report seems to be splitting 'eco' hairs in a very damaging way. Common sense says that washing nappies and reusing them rather than throwing 8 million unrecyclable bundles of plastic/human waste matter in landfill is an altogether more sustainable and realistic option.

TK, London,

How does the E.A. work that out then? A cloth nappy and the energy/water needed to clean it, is just as environmentally damaging as the factory, the chemicals, the electricity, the production of materials etc necessary to produce and ship one disposable? And chickens have lips... sheesh.

Jim, Wrexham, UK

Disposable nappies are dire for the environment in manufacture and disposal - the Environment Agency's report of 2005 was infamously based on a question posed to only 10 people. We now potty train our babies about 18months later than we did 25 years ago at a time when waste reduction is paramount.

Maddy , London,

When I was little I asked my gran what people did before they invented nappies and she said she didn't know. Well, the answer is the mother or primary carer just learns to read the signals of the baby. This is obviously nicer for the baby as it doesn't have to stay wrapped in its own poo.

sam, reading,

On holiday in China I saw babies on the street with 'open' clothing held over the gutter to pee while the mother whistled through her teeth to encourage them. Asking my Chinese friend about it she was embarrased, 'It is only poor people,' she said. Asked how the mother learned, she said, 'Quickly.'

eric, paris,


 

 

 

 

 
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