Better for the Environment
With the Climate Crisis getting closer each day parents want to minimise their impact on the planet. Parents want their babies to grow up and thrive in a world not drowning in pollution. There is a huge concern about the environmental impact that disposable baby products have. Parents are making a conscious effort to use products that are good for the environment.
Nappies and the Environment:
Currently in the UK about eight million disposable nappies are thrown away each day, which accounts for about three percent of our household waste. Using reusable nappies can dramatically reduce the amount of waste we send to landfill and incineration therefore minimsing our impact on the environment.
Disposable nappies in landfills take hundreds of years to degrade. If Henry VIII used disposable nappies they still wouldn’t have degraded today! Whereas cloth nappies not only reduce this waste dramatically, but as proven by Defra in the 2023 Lifecycle Assessement reusable nappies have an overall lesser impact on our environment.
Disposable nappies use up to three and a half times more energy to make compared to cloth nappies and contribute around 450,000 tonnes of landfill each year, producing a large amount of carbon emissions.
The Unseen Impact of Disposable Nappies
People always think about the waste created by the user of disposable nappies however they forget about the huge impacts disposable nappies cause during their manufacture.
Disposable nappy manufacturing has a massive impact on the environment. They require huge amounts of pulp and paper, as well as plastics and chemicals and thousands of litres of water that is then deemed undrinkable. They use three times the amount of energy as well as 20 times the raw materials required to make reusable cloth nappies.
