There are many benefits
to using real nappies. Benefits to your baby, to your
pocket and to the environment.
Better for baby
Natural cotton/organic cotton is preferable to
plastic containing chemicals...affecting sex hormones...
Baby boys who wear plastic disposable nappies have higher
scrotal temperatures and this is believed to affect
male fertility and increase the risk of testicular cancer.
Environmental reasons
to choose cloth nappies
The key is to reduce the rubbish in your bin, significantly
reducing rubbish going to landfill:
8% of Salisbury's Landfill site consists
of Disposable nappies... & They are not expected
to completely decompose for another 500 years...
Britain throws nearly 3 billion nappies away a year.
Nappy waste in Wiltshire costs £34 per tonne and 1000 tonnes per year.
It is estimated that over 25 million disposable nappies are landfilled in Wiltshire every year.
Dealing with disposable nappy waste costs the local
authorities tens of thousands of pounds a year.
A baby can wear about 5,400 disposable nappies before
they reach potty training age.
Using real nappies reduces the amount of waste sent
for incineration and also the amount of energy and non-renewable
resources used to produce disposables.
For more information see www.wen.org.uk/nappies/resources.htm
Financial Reasons to use cloth
nappies
Real nappies could save parents £500 for their
first child
Savings could be even greater with a second and third
child.
Second hand nappies are cheaper still (check out the
SRNN nappy exchange).
From birth to potty each baby typically gets through
between 4,000 and 6,000 nappies.
Basic real nappies cost less than £2 each, with
more sophisticated products costing around £3-10
each.
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