Composting nappies

Anyone see that on the news? Sounds interesting

I wasnt watching it closely but it seems that Huggies are going to put one out. They are also proposing a collection of nappies weekly and then going in a specially made composter. $5 a fortnight or something

I just saw it on the news...looks interesting! In the christchurch and canterbury area by the end of the year apparently

Sounds gross, all that plastic
That's why we're going cloth this time.

I think its a great idea anything to help the environment. I hate putting sposies in the rubbish, I'm a bit of a greenie, hence the reason I have made my own supply of MCN's!

My Mum made a comment tonight and its got me thinking, imagine how many nappies daycare centres put out with there rubbish especially since most are anti cloth??

Well, I don't know too much about it but I don't know about this 'helping the environment' - I have seen a similar thing that they did a doco on the trial thing in CHCH.

Yes it is reducing waste.

But is it using extreme amount of energy to run this thing?

And it is still encouraging a 'disposable culture' which is what I would like to see people move away from.

I just also saw a thread on trademe which mentions the manufacturing of disposables too... which is a HUGE environmental factor.

Don't worry, I wasn't meant to hassle you I just know there are a whole lot of companies out there trying to appear environmentally friendly on the surface, who really don't think about the full effect of their product/service.

Take our power company for instance. On the back of its brochure it has an "Environmental Award" - but I couldn't find who had actually given this award. My guess is that the company made it up themselves in order to fool people into thinking it was a more 'green' than it is.

I think is good that they are doing something but it is not enough and certainly not on a scale to reall ymake a difference - just a great PR exercise I think. It also doesn't address the issue of resource consumption - Most of the impact and emissions with nappies are in the production and transportation of them as opposed to the waste disposal.

Of course there are these same issues with cloth however they are much reduced as you only ever use a certain amount and they are usually reused on other children.

I agree with the comment above - we have a real disposable culture.

Two Blondinis wrote: kebakat wrote: I've seen that before on some other show.. Ewwwwwww! composting poo and pee, our compost goes on our vege garden so that would just be Much rather wash it out! lol Shouldn't you scrape all that poo out of the nappy before binning it/composting it anyways?!?!? Human feacal (sp?) matter into the soil

Where do you think it ends up when you flush it down the loo? lol... beaches, rivers, in the ground etc

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