Cath Cuss from CCBC Waste Management Team (Left) demonstrating the use of real nappies
It’s Real Nappy Week from 28th April – 4th May and Caerphilly County Borough Council’s Waste Management team will be raising awareness of the benefits of using real nappies on Tuesday 29th April at a roadshow event at an antenatal class in Ystrad Mynach Hospital.
Each year during real nappy week, Caerphilly County Borough Council’s Waste Management Team encourage parents to make the decision to ditch disposables and use real nappies.
Families in Wales throw away around 200 million disposable nappies a year, which end up on landfill sites where they take up to 500 years to decompose. During infancy, babies will spend approximately 25,000 hours in nappies and need about 6,000 nappy changes – so the decision to use either real nappies or disposables has a big impact on babies’ health and wellbeing, personal finance and the planet.
Swapping to real nappies proves beneficial to the environment and families can save up to £500 for the first child and even more money for subsequent children.
Cllr Dave Poole, Cabinet Member for Community and Leisure Services, said, “Using reusable nappies is now so easy and they are available in so many different styles and designs that there truly is a nappy to suit every child. By using cloth nappies, a family can save 156 black bags from going to landfill per child, and with the savings that can be made, the impact on their finances will be evident too.”
For more information, please call 01443 866533 or visit www.caerphilly.gov.uk/recycling.
