…or do they??

Edie.net informs us that April 24 - 30 is national “nappy week”, where parents are encouraged to use cloth diapers in effort to be the “baddest” green-mean-lean fightin’ machine! Certainly, sophisticated, smart and caring moms use cloth, don’tchyaknow? Just look at the rousing endorsement by the owner of Sam I Am, “It’s loosing it’s freakishness.” (Sign me up then!)

Kerry Newton, the owner of Sam I Am, an online store selling cotton nappies, said that Real Nappy Week was helping to bring her products into the mainstream.

“More and more people are giving them serious thought. It’s no longer got the hippy image,” she told edie. “It definitely is raising awareness. As the years go by, it’s loosing its freakishness.”

Eight million disposable nappies are thrown away every day in the UK.

 Oh, wait. Nevermind!

But not everyone is convinced that a return to cotton is the answer.

A recent Environment Agency study concluded that there was little or no difference between the damage done to the environment by disposable and re-usable nappies, and another study comparing the life cycles of disposable and reusable nappies is due to be published this autumn. A spokeswoman for the agency said it had “no specific view” on Real Nappy Week.

Back to the drawing board. I will find a way to make a difference even if doesn’t make a difference anyway, I promise you!

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