So Gove wants to ban disposable nappies....

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article here

What do we think? I can kind of see where he's coming from but I wouldn't have been without my disposables.

I used cloth nappies. I think it’s a great idea.

No he doesn't.

Single use plastics are killing the environment.

From POV it's entirely the right thing to call for. The throwaway society is terribly convenient, but what is the real price?

Good.
Billions of us survived cloth nappies.

Read the article not the headline.

He's actually very clearly denied that they're considering a disposable nappy ban!

I do feel very guilty about using disposable nappies, and have been thinking of switching - we use reusable nappy wipes and that hasn't been too much of a hassle at all, so maybe I could take the plunge. I absolutely wouldn't have considered it in the first six weeks when DS was absolutely constantly pooing and we were often literally changing nappies hourly, though. I also know a lot of people who tried reusable nappies and gave up on them, which puts me off.

A total ban would be political suicide, and it won't happen for that reason if no other.

Daily fail click bait: Mr Gove's spokesman said: 'Michael did not say we would ban disposable nappies and we're not going to

I don’t think they should (or ever would be!) banned. However I do think we should try to push the use of reusables more to encourage people to try it

I would welcome this, but it's a cheap shot aiming at nappies when a ban on unnecessary plastic wrapping on vegetables and the like is a far more achievable short term aim.

I'll just buy stock pile them then. I've got three kids in nappies and mountains of washing as it is. Don't want anymore.

I definitely think a subsidy for reusuables would be appropriate - they're expensive, and that's one of the things that puts me off. A more likely route would be a tax on disposable though, and I think that should be resisted at it would hit the poorest families very hard.

I moved to cloth with number 2 and using cloth about 70% of the time with number 3.

I think part time cloth is great in many ways - we flush poos now, whereas with DS1 we just wrapped up the nappy and put it in the bin. I’m ashamed to say that now but we were just yucked out by it and didn’t think. Now I vigorously scrape as much poo off as I can into the toilet whether it’s cloth or disposable.

I don’t think banning disposables would ever be workable, but just getting it in the news is a good thing. I should part time cloth would be achievable for most families (full time is a huge drain, I tried to go full time with two and felt like I was always bloody washing nappies).

I think its good to be discussed and considered. Children are getting potty trained later and the thought of all those nappies in landfill is horrifying.

Developing/improving biodegradable nappies, reusables with liners/subsidies for cloth etc could all be looked at and a workable solution come to.

I used cloth but didn’t wash a single nappy because the dirty ones were collected every week and I was given fresh ones.

Why not just incinerate them? Literally burn that shit and use the heat created to warm houses or something else?

Surely burning them would be quite difficult due to the liquid content. And create quite nasty pollution.

I'm no great defender of Gove and think he would be of much greater use giving people directions at Kings Cross Station but he doesn't want to ban nappies. Pragmatically speaking, it would be nigh on impossible to ban 'single-use' nappies. Read the actual article even if it is from a shite-rag.

Lots nappies aren’t as hard to use, or as yucky, as most people seem to think they are.

I used cloth with all 3 of mine, varying between full time and part time. And my eldest has SN, and was in nappies full time until 6 or so, and at night until 9.

It does make you think a bit more about all aspects of waste - even when I did use disposables, I flushed poo rather than binning it - how that ever came to be acceptable I do t know (not trying to be as judgy as that sounds, just, when you stop to think about it, why?!)

@dillite Because that would effectively be trying to solve a problem by creating a new one and substantially adding to existing problems.

Ffs, autocorrect. cloth nappies aren’t as hard to use...

I thought about cloth nappies for DS but just could not afford to buy them. There are such a range out there and as a FTM I had no idea which would be the best for me to choose, I couldn’t afford to make the mistake of choosing the wrong ones.

READ THE ARTICLE
Gove said nothing of the sort

he is all hot air trying to distract the gullible from the fact that tories want a regulation free environment after Brexit

When dd was little I read an article that said from an environmental point of view when you take into account the washing, so electricity to heat the water, etc and often nappy laundering service where they pick up dirty nappies from your house then they’re just as bad as disposables.

There are lots of eco disposable nappies now that Roy down. I do think plastic not decomposing nappies should be banned.

He's not going to, but I wish they would. Plastics are awful and washable nappies are fine.