environmental impact washables v. disposables

[ChocolateMoose]

Sorry, this has probably been done to death, but just been looking at oldmum42's posts on this thread arguing that the two types of nappies are about the same on environmental and financial cost. Who knows more about this and can point me to some facts and figures?

DEFRA (I think) re-did the report in 2009 and it showed that under certain conditions (no tumble drying/ironing, decent load size etc) and if only used on one child, real nappies have a 40% lower carbon footprint - I've got the report saved on my laptop so could email it to you if you like? Alternatively I think I got it from the DEFRA website?

Try this [http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=WR0705_7589_FRP.pdf]