I heard that cloth nappies are just as bad for the environment as disposables. Whats up with that?
A great starter summary of the environmental issues can be found at the Melbourne Royal Women’s Hospital website, and also at Nappy Times UK. At the Royal Women’s Hospital information page you will also see that disposable nappies have 2.3 times the water impact of cloth nappies. Recommending disposable nappies as a solution to Australia’s water shortage is ignorant NIMBYism. You may have read media soundbites about the Environment Agency life cycle analysis published in the UK. A poorly thought-out, statistically inadequate, and already obsolete study of the environmental impact of nappies was performed in the UK recently. Unfortunately the results were accepted uncritically by the mainstream press. To read more about this study: • Real Diaper Association comment on the EA report • http://www.wen.org.uk/general_pages/Newsitems/ms_LCA19.5.05.htm • http://www.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,12188,1488290,00.html • http://www.letsrecycle.com/info/waste_management/news.jsp?story=4490 The Env
