****** PLEASE CIRCULATE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO HAS A BABY ******
My client, Mother Nature Products, has kindly allowed me to use her information off her website to tell you about the impact of nappies on our environment, and that YOU CAN ACTUALLY SAVE MONEY AND THE ENVIRONMENT by choosing to use the new improved cloth nappy systems that are now available countrywide.
1. Did you know that one baby uses approximately 5000 nappies in a 2.5 year period? And did you know that due to the plastic content, disposable nappies are not biodegradable?
Once a landfill has been closed, it is left for 100 years to "settle". Then it is usually built on. Can you imagine the construction company going to break ground, and they excavate a plastic bag full of used nappies, each tied up in its own plastic grocery bag! It takes 300-500 years for our disposable nappies to break down! That is without being wrapped in 2 layers of plastic bags. And what about the health risks!!!!!!
Biodegradable disposable nappies which replace the plastic content with a biodegradable film are 70% degradable but tend to be expensive to produce and still need to be disposed of. The "poo" in nappies mixed together with household waste lets off a gas called methane which contributes to global warming.
Sanitary landfill sites are not designed or permitted to contain faeces and therefore have no solution to the growing number of dirty disposable nappies ending up at the dump. Basically "poo" belongs in the "loo"; which then goes through the sewerage system for downstream treatment.
2. Did you know that you can use cloth nappies (the new improved versions) and save over R10 000 in 3 years by doing so? AND YOU CAN REDUCE YOUR IMPACT ON THE PLANET! You can access lots more information on http://www.mothernatureproducts.co.za/.
