Telegraph article about greener living.

[Callisto]

There was an article in the Saturday Telegraph by Julia Hailes which you may find interesting: here.

I am a little dubious about this statement:

'The book concludes that the environmental benefits of reusable nappies are far from clear. Washing them in gallons and gallons of hot water adds significantly to climate change - "the number one issue facing the planet" - while disposables merely add to landfill.'

She seems to have ignored the carbon emissions created in the manufacture of disposables.

She also implies that landfill is not a problem. If you take into account that disposables nappies take centuries to biodegrade, to me that is a problem at least on the scale of carbon emissions.

So very Telegraph article, short on facts, long on bias and anecdote... you can spot an "environmentalist" by their monster raving lunacy -- according to first paragraph, etc.

And they're mostly misinformed lunatics at that, states the next few parags.

Besides manuf costs being ignored, Most nappies only need to be washed in warm water, not hot. The statement doesn't take into account the fact that most cloth nappies get used by 2+ children; many can be thrown into compost at end of working life, decaying to CO2 (not methane). We are running out of landfill space in Britain, and the paper in nappies adds to methane emissions that come from landfill.

I very much doubt 90% of girls are out of nappies by age 2.5 yrs day AND night.