Channel Five Nappy Report

Babies Nappies Go Green

Yesterday Channel Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky ran a fantastic piece on modern reusable nappies, and I was literally jumping in my seat with excitement!

The story featured a baby sat in front of a mound on disposables, with a neat little pile of 24 terries next to her, and featured some great information and real nappy feedback. Including loads of nappy statistics:

• 4,500 disposable nappies are used during the infancy of 9/10 children
• The production of each of these childs disposable nappies produces the equivalent co² emissions to a car driving 2,161 miles
• Making and washing cloth nappies produces a 1/3 less, at the equivalent of 1,462 miles

The piece also showed a mother with a 4 month old baby boy testing out some bumGenius nappies, and said she found them ‘very easy’ and wanted to keep them. She also stated that she ‘felt good’ using them!

The reporter finishned with ’Washable Nappies may be a niche market, but clearly more and more parents are interested in bringing up their babies in a way that does preserve the planet for those children- and thats something the whole nappy industry is going to have to get to grips with’

Great feature Five, well done!

Channel Five News- Babies Nappies Go Green