Eco-friendly disposable nappies, any good?

[jofeb04]

Never tried them before, seen them for sale but I don't know anything about them!

Are they really any good? Does all parts of the nappy decompose, or just parts?

Tell me how they work please

Thanks

I tried nature babycare disposables, you need to change more frequently than (say) a tescos nappy. Not sure about how much decomposes.

My understanding from the reusable experts I know is that they dont decompose as they are put in landfill in bin bags which is not the environment in which they can decompose. So they are a way of making people feel better about using disposables but no difference to standard dispoables. Sorry.

Nature baby worked fine for us, also Tushies (although you can't buy Tushies many places). The trouble I think is that in landfill very little actually decomposes (even stuff that is biodegradable), because there's no oxygen in there. I believe both are compostable though if you remove any poo. Also I have been told that Nature Babies are manufactured in Israel so they have the environmental impact of all those airmiles to contend with too.

Moltex Eco are compostable as well, but I've not used them.

i got a freebie moltex from spirit of nature website.was very good but prefer disposables.

not disposables grr reusables.

Thanks for the info, may look into it in the New Year

We use cloth most of the time, but Moltex overnight and when travelling. Moltex are pretty cautious about what they claim, but other sources say that they compost very nicely in a wormery.

I've used Moltex, Bambo's and Tushies fine, but find that washables leak less. Or maybe it's practice ... I don't think any are 100% biodegradable, and as others have mentioned, tips don't provide the right environment anyway. However, they should use sustainable wood pulp, and, in the case of Moltex, not bleach. Have you tried 'going real'? We used disposables when we didn't have a functioning washing machine, but are now on washables (a motley collection gained through Council, ebay and Freecycle, so they don't have to be expensive), and find it no more hassle.

Although they don't biodegrade in landfill due to conditions not being right, I think there are more environmental benefits on the manufacturing side than with normal disposables - sustainable woodpulp, not using gels or bleach etc. So although kerala is right that the end of lifecycle is no better than normal disposables (unless you can compost them yourself), they are still a bit better environmentally overall.

BlueChampagne is right.

Moltex packaging is a bit misleading. The packaging is made from corn starch and is compostable and 100% biodegradable (it has the bio-degradable symbol). The nappy is however not biodegradable and cannot be composted. Naty and Tushies are the same.

Weenies Nappy Pads are 100% biodegradable. You use them with a reuseable wrap, then tear and flush the bit on the inside and you can compost the remainder - their bumf says they decompose in 30 days in a wormery, but I suppose it depends what else you chuck in there and how efficient your worms are...

We use cloth all the time but when we did use dispos it was the nature babycare ones... its not just the enviro you have to consider it's all the nasty chemicals in them so although non are 100% bio due to conditions etc.. they are certainly better for baby!

We use nature baby (as dd reacts to chlorine) and they are fine.

I found Moltex leaked a lot. I know people who say they never do but we had lots of nights with a soaked baby.

I've always got on well with the Nature ones and they don't seem to need changing more than others but maybe I'm a bit slack.

I used cloth and then Nature Baby over night. I have always been very please with them and at least they don't have that AWFUL chemical smell of Pampers et al. I was always changing dd thinking she had done a poo on the occasions she wore Pampers but the smell was the chemicals dealing with a little wee. Yuk.

True you can smell the chemicals in Pampers. I use bambo nappies from www.mama-earth.co.uk with biodegradable sacks (if I use one). I've always got on fine with them. I've also tried Moltex but prefer Bambo.