Comments for http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk Real nappies - everything you need to know but are too confused to ask! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:22:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 Comment on New DEFRA report shows that real nappies are 40% better for the environment by admin http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2008/11/17/new-defra-report-shows-that-real-nappies-are-40-better-for-the-environment/#comment-209 admin Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:34:50 +0000 http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2008/11/17/new-defra-report-shows-that-real-nappies-are-40-better-for-the-environment/#comment-209 Hi Jo, and thanks for your comments. We recommend 40 degrees for washing nappies, although it is worth noting that Official Department of Health recommendations are 60. However, because modern washing machines are so efficient, we find that 40 degrees is usually ample, and indeed some nappies and wraps are only supposed to be washed at 40 based on manufacturers recommendations. If you're worried that they need an extra clean, we recommend an occassional 60 degree to get that a thorough clean. With the eco-balls, yes, that would help take down the environmental impact - although the carbon footprint does come from a range of different places - from the manufacture of the nappies, and most importantly, from the energy and water used in washing and drying them. This is why it's so important that the survey shows that it's down to the parents to decide how green they want to be after purchase - because just by cutting out tumble drying altogether, you're making it a greener and much cheaper option. When you start factoring in re-use between siblings, washing them on lower temperature settings etc, it becomes even better. Hi Jo, and thanks for your comments.

We recommend 40 degrees for washing nappies, although it is worth noting that Official Department of Health recommendations are 60. However, because modern washing machines are so efficient, we find that 40 degrees is usually ample, and indeed some nappies and wraps are only supposed to be washed at 40 based on manufacturers recommendations. If you’re worried that they need an extra clean, we recommend an occassional 60 degree to get that a thorough clean.

With the eco-balls, yes, that would help take down the environmental impact - although the carbon footprint does come from a range of different places - from the manufacture of the nappies, and most importantly, from the energy and water used in washing and drying them. This is why it’s so important that the survey shows that it’s down to the parents to decide how green they want to be after purchase - because just by cutting out tumble drying altogether, you’re making it a greener and much cheaper option. When you start factoring in re-use between siblings, washing them on lower temperature settings etc, it becomes even better.

]]> Comment on New DEFRA report shows that real nappies are 40% better for the environment by Jo http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2008/11/17/new-defra-report-shows-that-real-nappies-are-40-better-for-the-environment/#comment-208 Jo Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:01:05 +0000 http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2008/11/17/new-defra-report-shows-that-real-nappies-are-40-better-for-the-environment/#comment-208 Hi Esma! Yes I agree - putting the parent back in control of the waste, and potty-training, is vital. Somehow parenting has become this major-spend commoditisation, with all these 'time-saver', 'get-your-life-back' products advertised only showing the benefits of the product, not the downside, which in this particular instance is that the effort-saving you'll gain by using disposables is that you'll be using them for double the amount of time - perhaps longer! Two things puzzle me since reading your email, which I wonder if you can clarify. Firstly, I have been washing my nappies at 60degrees - can I drop this down to 40 and still be assured of a clean and hazard-free load when I hang my nappies up to dry? And secondly, what about the benefits of ecoballs? I presume that the carbon footprint is mainly made up of soap suds - is this true? Because otherwise I don't understand where the carbon footprint could be: unless it counts as the waste which any normal human would pass on any normal day? I have been using ecoballs on my nappies since August, jumping in at the deep end with a full pail of nappies of various dirty degrees, and I've never been happier with my choice to use cloth nappies because I know the soap isn't being washed into the sea, and also that it isn't on her skin all day in and out. Not to mention the cost saving in not having to buy powder every second week... Please let me know, All the best, Jo Hi Esma!

Yes I agree - putting the parent back in control of the waste, and potty-training, is vital. Somehow parenting has become this major-spend commoditisation, with all these ‘time-saver’, ‘get-your-life-back’ products advertised only showing the benefits of the product, not the downside, which in this particular instance is that the effort-saving you’ll gain by using disposables is that you’ll be using them for double the amount of time - perhaps longer!

Two things puzzle me since reading your email, which I wonder if you can clarify. Firstly, I have been washing my nappies at 60degrees - can I drop this down to 40 and still be assured of a clean and hazard-free load when I hang my nappies up to dry? And secondly, what about the benefits of ecoballs? I presume that the carbon footprint is mainly made up of soap suds - is this true? Because otherwise I don’t understand where the carbon footprint could be: unless it counts as the waste which any normal human would pass on any normal day? I have been using ecoballs on my nappies since August, jumping in at the deep end with a full pail of nappies of various dirty degrees, and I’ve never been happier with my choice to use cloth nappies because I know the soap isn’t being washed into the sea, and also that it isn’t on her skin all day in and out. Not to mention the cost saving in not having to buy powder every second week…

Please let me know,
All the best,
Jo

]]> Comment on The real nappy vs disposables debate… by Jo http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2007/10/01/the-real-nappy-vs-disposables-debate-%e2%80%93-why-real-nappies-are-better-for-the-environment/#comment-193 Jo Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:32:06 +0000 http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2007/10/01/the-real-nappy-vs-disposables-debate-%e2%80%93-why-real-nappies-are-better-for-the-environment/#comment-193 Hi Esma! Yes I agree - putting the parent back in control of the waste, and potty-training, is vital. Somehow parenting has become this major-spend commoditisation, with all these 'time-saver', 'get-your-life-back' products advertised only showing the benefits of the product, not the downside, which in this particular instance is that the effort-saving you'll gain by using disposables is that you'll be using them for double the amount of time - perhaps longer! Two things puzzle me since reading your email, which I wonder if you can clarify. Firstly, I have been washing my nappies at 60degrees - can I drop this down to 40 and still be assured of a clean and hazard-free load when I hang my nappies up to dry? And secondly, what about the benefits of ecoballs? I presume that the carbon footprint is mainly made up of soap suds - is this true? Because otherwise I don't understand where the carbon footprint could be: unless it counts as the waste which any normal human would pass on any normal day? I have been using ecoballs on my nappies since August, jumping in at the deep end with a full pail of nappies of various dirty degrees, and I've never been happier with my choice to use cloth nappies because I know the soap isn't being washed into the sea, and also that it isn't on her skin all day in and out. Not to mention the cost saving in not having to buy powder every second week... Please let me know, All the best, Jo Hi Esma!

Yes I agree - putting the parent back in control of the waste, and potty-training, is vital. Somehow parenting has become this major-spend commoditisation, with all these ‘time-saver’, ‘get-your-life-back’ products advertised only showing the benefits of the product, not the downside, which in this particular instance is that the effort-saving you’ll gain by using disposables is that you’ll be using them for double the amount of time - perhaps longer!

Two things puzzle me since reading your email, which I wonder if you can clarify. Firstly, I have been washing my nappies at 60degrees - can I drop this down to 40 and still be assured of a clean and hazard-free load when I hang my nappies up to dry? And secondly, what about the benefits of ecoballs? I presume that the carbon footprint is mainly made up of soap suds - is this true? Because otherwise I don’t understand where the carbon footprint could be: unless it counts as the waste which any normal human would pass on any normal day? I have been using ecoballs on my nappies since August, jumping in at the deep end with a full pail of nappies of various dirty degrees, and I’ve never been happier with my choice to use cloth nappies because I know the soap isn’t being washed into the sea, and also that it isn’t on her skin all day in and out. Not to mention the cost saving in not having to buy powder every second week…

Please let me know,
All the best,
Jo

]]> Comment on Credit crunch by admin http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2008/10/31/credit-crunch/#comment-187 admin Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:14:50 +0000 http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2008/10/31/credit-crunch/#comment-187 Yes, we will, because like our money-saving real nappies, Paul's jokes are recession-proof! Yes, we will, because like our money-saving real nappies, Paul’s jokes are recession-proof!

]]> Comment on Credit crunch by Aunty Sally Anne http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2008/10/31/credit-crunch/#comment-186 Aunty Sally Anne Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:11:29 +0000 http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2008/10/31/credit-crunch/#comment-186 Is the globally available 'Credit Crunch' an organically grown, grass roots type of start to the day or is it the ''end of the day'' sort of snack......I mean totally end of the day like in WORLD? Will CGN be distributors of mirth for much longer in this doom n gloom murk we all are living in? ASA Is the globally available ‘Credit Crunch’ an organically grown, grass roots type of start to the day or is it the ”end of the day” sort of snack……I mean totally end of the day like in WORLD?

Will CGN be distributors of mirth for much longer in this doom n gloom murk we all are living in?

ASA

]]> Comment on Credit crunch by julian http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2008/10/31/credit-crunch/#comment-185 julian Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:09:33 +0000 http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2008/10/31/credit-crunch/#comment-185 Should they be nuggets then? Should they be nuggets then?

]]> Comment on The real nappy vs disposables debate… by Katy http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2007/10/01/the-real-nappy-vs-disposables-debate-%e2%80%93-why-real-nappies-are-better-for-the-environment/#comment-4 Katy Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:22:23 +0000 http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2007/10/01/the-real-nappy-vs-disposables-debate-%e2%80%93-why-real-nappies-are-better-for-the-environment/#comment-4 Hi I used terry nappies for my Son & now I help support parents using my childcare, by having a range of shapped and terry nappies. I wash them at the setting etc, before I did this the amount of disposables that went into the dustbin was unbeliveable. I think disposable nappy adverts should be banned, they make out children can't sleep be active without their make of nappy. My son just before the age of 2 was able to climb out of his cot, wearing a terry nappy, it never got in the way of him doing anything, children wearing disposables can still be in them at the age of 4 yrs and now they make night time pants for older children. Most children wearing washable nappies will be potty trained between the ages of 2-3 yrs, thats at least a years difference. Hi I used terry nappies for my Son & now I help support parents using my childcare, by having a range of shapped and terry nappies. I wash them at the setting etc, before I did this the amount of disposables that went into the dustbin was unbeliveable. I think disposable nappy adverts should be banned, they make out children can’t sleep be active without their make of nappy. My son just before the age of 2 was able to climb out of his cot, wearing a terry nappy, it never got in the way of him doing anything, children wearing disposables can still be in them at the age of 4 yrs and now they make night time pants for older children. Most children wearing washable nappies will be potty trained between the ages of 2-3 yrs, thats at least a years difference.

]]> Comment on The real nappy vs disposables debate… by Sadie http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2007/10/01/the-real-nappy-vs-disposables-debate-%e2%80%93-why-real-nappies-are-better-for-the-environment/#comment-3 Sadie Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:59:39 +0000 http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2007/10/01/the-real-nappy-vs-disposables-debate-%e2%80%93-why-real-nappies-are-better-for-the-environment/#comment-3 Hi and thanks for your blog, it was good reading. Ive had lots of other mums quote this report to me, saying Im mad to use cloth nappies and that the environmental impact is pretty much the same for disposables and cloth. I cant convince them that the report is flawed and based on outdate information because it has been reported in the media, and we all know that if its in the paper then it has to be true - sigh! I am looking forward to the new updated report to come out, and hope that the EA have done their homework properly this time and actually ask real mums who are using cloth nappies how they use them. Im sure the results will be a lot different then. Im also hoping that the media will give as much positive press to this as they did negative press to the findings of the original report but am not holding my breath. Sadie Hi and thanks for your blog, it was good reading. Ive had lots of other mums quote this report to me, saying Im mad to use cloth nappies and that the environmental impact is pretty much the same for disposables and cloth. I cant convince them that the report is flawed and based on outdate information because it has been reported in the media, and we all know that if its in the paper then it has to be true - sigh!

I am looking forward to the new updated report to come out, and hope that the EA have done their homework properly this time and actually ask real mums who are using cloth nappies how they use them. Im sure the results will be a lot different then. Im also hoping that the media will give as much positive press to this as they did negative press to the findings of the original report but am not holding my breath.

Sadie

]]> Comment on The real nappy vs disposables debate… by hanna derbyshire http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2007/10/01/the-real-nappy-vs-disposables-debate-%e2%80%93-why-real-nappies-are-better-for-the-environment/#comment-2 hanna derbyshire Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:39:54 +0000 http://blog.cleangreennappy.co.uk/2007/10/01/the-real-nappy-vs-disposables-debate-%e2%80%93-why-real-nappies-are-better-for-the-environment/#comment-2 Dear Esma, Thank you so much for writing such words of wisdom, and lets face it, 'common sense!'. I too was appalled by the governments sweeping statements which were misleading and 'wrong!' quite frankly! I only hope that not too much damage has been done and that people can see past government 'white washes' and keep on making the 'real nappy' choice. I get many potential customers for my nappy supply & laundry service quoting the government 'report' and their so called findings to me and have to reassure them time and time again that it was totally inaccurate and very narrow minded! I will certainly be recommending that they read this blog! I presume that the Real Nappy Campaign was costing the government money & resources that they wished to use elsewhere and so this 'report' and alleged findings gave them the green light to pull the funding and shut it all down. BUT at who's expense now? Our planet I reckon! Dear Esma,
Thank you so much for writing such words of wisdom, and lets face it, ‘common sense!’. I too was appalled by the governments sweeping statements which were misleading and ‘wrong!’ quite frankly! I only hope that not too much damage has been done and that people can see past government ‘white washes’ and keep on making the ‘real nappy’ choice.
I get many potential customers for my nappy supply & laundry service quoting the government ‘report’ and their so called findings to me and have to reassure them time and time again that it was totally inaccurate and very narrow minded! I will certainly be recommending that they read this blog!
I presume that the Real Nappy Campaign was costing the government money & resources that they wished to use elsewhere and so this ‘report’ and alleged findings gave them the green light to pull the funding and shut it all down. BUT at who’s expense now? Our planet I reckon!

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