It's Real Nappy Week next week so expect to see funky wrap nappies and eco-bottom solutions everywhere you look!
One of the new initiatives being launched is The Real Nappies On Wards project, aimed at encouraging hospitals to use and promote the use of real nappies
rather than disposables, to new parents.
This initiative is launched in Scotland, where less than ten per cent of parents use reusable nappies. Although this is still better than most European countries,
the English average is more like 15 per cent.
The project is partly funded by WRAP (the Waste and Resource Action Programme) and will offer a year's supply of reusable nappies to Scotland's
maternity wards and hospitals. The nappies being supplied will come from Tots Bots, who are based
in Glasgow, and regularly praised by ThinkBaby members on this website!
The Scottish Executive and regional midwife groups are supporting the campaign, which works towards creating less landfill through reduced disposable nappy use. Some Scottish
councils have already taken up schemes to send out trial packs to parents to persuade more new families to use reusable options, and in the UK generally,
more and more councils are offering financial incentives as part of their green waste policies.
For more information on Real Nappy Week visit the Women's Environmental Network website
or check out the Real Nappy Campaign website.
