Disposables are the devils work!

[discodolly]

Just had to announce this!! Just come back from hols and put DD in disposables as I couldn't be bothered washing cottons while away and my god they really are sh*te!!! They stink of chemicals, I had gel stuff oozing out of them, she got nappy rash and ended up doing loads of washing from the explosive poos which ended up all over her clothes. Couldn't wait to get home and put her in her lovely, fluffy, big bummed Tots. Aaar rant over!!

i have never really thought much into about the poo - i will start scraping into the toilet then.

Perhaps AS but it's not wrapped up in bleached paper, plastic and gel which will take decades to rot down.

not to be flippant or anything, but why don't we all start wiping our bottoms with leaves? no more loo roll, even the recycled stuff.

Good on you cowweee.

Leaves wouldn't get the poo off sans.

How do you know how long it takes to rot down?

No-one can be sure Ameriscot how long disposables take to decompose but they'll certainly outlive you and me

Don't you have anything better than Wen?

Ooooh touchy. And what have you contributed?

Actually there's no shortage of similar estimates but I like WEN.

maybe soap & water? i honestly do make an effort not too use more roll than necessary.

Good on you sans. I could certainly improve on that front. I probably use to much and my kids definitely do.

sansouci....I mean it about not being able to live with myself however prim and self righteous that sounds.
Ilive in a flat when I'm in Turkey. It's no problem.
Ameriscott,didn't know that's where the sewage ended up. Even so,surely it's been treated? Is it essentially a powder by this stage?

What have I contribute to what? To landfills - rather a lot, I suspect.

To information about landfills - w e l l, now you ask...can't be bothered regurgitating but I'm sure it's all on other threads.

One good source, if you really want to shift your paradigm, is to do a google on "The Garbage Project" (Dr William Rathje, University of Arizona), where you might learn real statistics (from archeological studies) about the amount of nappies in landfills relative to other household waste.

ps: waste in landfill is not designed to decompose, even food waste, so it's no surprise that it's still there after X amount of time.

now, now... this is meant to be edifying, not a slanging match.

Most of the world washes it's arse with water.

Not a powder, Moondog. It is classified as a sludge and has most of the attributes of the real thing.

'its'!!
Have visions of one enormous collective arse.....

i think we all do. wash our arses with water. collective or otherwise.

Perhapps we should all concentrate on potty training earlier. I know of cases where 3 year old are still in nappies, whereas my mum had me and my brother "clean" (her words) by 18 months.
That would help the landfill situation wouldn't it?

But what life is that, constantly chasing after an 18-month old, armed with a bottle of Dettox?

Hey! Talking to my sister yesterday who has a friend from Beijing over. The kid is 15 mths old and fully potty trained as the mother (English) did the Chinese thing of holding her over the potty from a very early age.Sister said she was so irrationally jealous,she couldn't even bring herslef to discuss it.

See her point MD. The day my last baby is potty trained, a huge weight will rise from my shoulders at last.

I crave release from the twin binds of nappies and pushchairs........
Can't even imagine doing all that four times (on top of drug free births to boot!)

Yup. It's a sare fecht, as they say in Aberdeen.