LATEST FROM THE REAL NAPPIES FOR LONDON BLOG
The Real Nappies for London Vision
We need to make a transition to low impact lives. This doesn’t mean ‘eating lettuce in caves’. Our vision of a low impact world is one with cleaner air, more fertile soil, fewer deaths and injuries from traffic accidents. We can develop technologies...
Competition – Tell your friends about the voucher
Real Nappy Week 2014 is coming up, 28 April to 4 May and we need your help with promoting real nappies. Do you have a friend, neighbour or work colleague eligible to apply for a voucher? They need to live in Bexley, Camden, Hackney,...
Real Nappy Week 2014
28 April - 4 MayWhy are more and more parents opting for washable nappies? Disposable liners help keep the nappies clean so most of the time you're just loading damp cloths into your washing machine. An increasing number of cloth nappy parents are...
Reduce Climate Change Impacts of your baby wearing nappies
See if your baby is trying to tell you s/he wants to pee or poo on a pot. Look up Elimination Communication – fewer nappies is the most environmentally friendly optionUse cloth nappies – washing nappies can have up to 40% lower climate change impacts...
London spends £20 million on nappy waste …
On any one day there are about 335k babies and toddlers in London wearing an average of 5 disposable nappies per day. That means over 1.5 million nappies are thrown away in London every day. We estimate Londoners spend approximately £20 million per...
Nappy Ever After wants to ditch the diesel
Camden-based nappy laundry service, Nappy Ever After needs to raise £2,000 to get its electric bike back on the road. It's holding a fund-raising screening during Climate Week (March 3-9) of the Diaper Dilemma, a 50 minute documentary that investigates the...
Environment Agency or Government? Who is to blame?
Eric Pickles has blamed the Environment Agency - Guardian for the flooding of the Somerset Levels. We are not qualified to comment.However we are qualified to comment on the Environment Agency's Nappy Life Cycle Analysis of 2005 that said washing...
Apply for your nappy voucher in person
This is a new way to get your voucher and buy real nappies. For the next few months (until at least 18 October) you can turn up at Nappy Ever After's shop between Euston and Kings Cross St Pancras stations and apply for a voucher in person.Nappy Ever...
Are you fed up that your council doesn’t offer an incentive to use real nappies?
You can do something about it. It's election year in London and local councillors are in listening mode. You can write to them or even better visit their surgery. Mums, dads, carers, we'd really appreciate it if you could tell them that you are using/used...
Vaccination – the question
At RNfL we can't claim to have any expertise on this subject. However we are aware that it's difficult (as with nappies) to make an informed choice. So we are publicising this event in London. Vaccination – The Question DR JAYNE LM...
A Nappy Day Out | Real Nappy Flashmob
On Tuesday 11th December 2013 parents and supporters joined the #realnappyflashmob to raise awareness of reusable nappies on the same day as the publication of the first ever Waste Prevention Programme for England.Meeting at St Pancras International by the John...
Is composting single-use nappies the solution?
Well done to EnviroComp and Biffa for getting this story about composting nappies on BBC Breakfast just before the Waste Prevention Plan for England was published on 11 December 2013.Composting nappy waste is certainly a better business model than Knowaste's recycling...
MothersLoveGreen: A new group for mums
This is an inspiring guest blog from MothersLoveGreen. If you would like to go but are too far from Archway why not set up something similar for mothers in your area (or fathers or parents)?It’s easy to get a bit of cabin fever on the mum-scene. Sometimes it feels...
Prevention of nappy waste is best
Thanks to everyone who came to the real nappy flashmob today. We are parents who have discovered reusable nappies and love them. We are saying to other parents "try zero waste nappies, you may find you love them too".We held the event because today the first ever...
We’re talking about potty training again
When we talk about nappies all sorts of other topics come up, like Mooncups and Cloth Sanitary Products (CSP), even recycling and composting. Washing nappies in an eco-friendly way comes up a lot as you'd imagine. And also stuff to do with health like...
Nappies NOT a landfill issue. Really?
Defra will be making a big mistake if it leaves nappies out of the Waste Prevention Plan for England, due to be published later this month. I can already see and hear the crowing media releases from AHPMA (Absorbent Hygiene Products Manufacturer's Associaton)....
Real Baby Hubs for London | #EWWR2013 Competition
It's European Week for Waste Reduction so we're running a competition. Make a suggestion below and you can win an Ecoegg - great for washing nappies and reducing packaging waste.This is what we want you to do. Imagine you're sitting round the kitchen table with a...
Invest in a potty
Are you one of those parents that doesn't want to use washable nappies? Don't worry, you can still make a difference and save money. This European Week for Waste Reduction (16-24 November) let's talk about toilet training.Did you know that since disposables became the...
What’s life like for London parents at the moment?
When we start a family we tend to find we have less money. It's time to think smart: spend less and live differently. We're in the early days of designing a new project with the Women's Environmental Network (WEN) to help new parents in London find out how to buy...
The pressure to succeed as a mum
There's a new report out about the incidence of depression during pregnancy and after birth. It seems like modern life is decreasing our ability to be excited about having a baby and becoming a mum. There's too much pressure to become the 'perfect' mum. Is it that? Or...