Drying washing indoors is fine in modern houses. The only place you can get condensation is on the windows and that's easy to deal with, and our windows are open every day so we don't have ventilation problems. It was an issue with older houses where you could get mould occurring on cold walls.
I've yet to see a fair comparison between cloth and disposable nappies though. All the studies seem to presume you boil wash and tumble dry using energy ratings from older machines, IE assume the worst energy and water use scenario for cleaning, while looking quite favourably on disposables and forgetting to add in a lot of the production and shipping factors, as well as all the ecosystems destroyed to produce the wood pulp. Wales has to deal with 200million soiled nappies every year and gets heavily taxed on the ones that end up in landfill, but as a country we have abundant water resources and my electricity comes from a green energy provider. If nothing else I've easily saved £1000 or more and weathered the Covid nappy crisis much more easily than other parents did. I won't shame people into doing the same thing as it wouldn't work for everyone but it suits us.Â
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Desmond Swayne (Conservative MP for New Forest West) says the UK shouldn't be so worried about deaths from Covid, because more people die on the roads each year...
Something tells me he's wrong.
Road accident deaths 2020:Â 1460 Covid deaths last WEEK:Â 909
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Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I found that too, @wild edges - I washed nappies on a cool wash with a half-measure of detergent (or eco balls, so no detergent at all), never tumble dried and - crucially - used them for two kids, immediately halving the carbon footprint of their production (iyswim). Most people I knew who used cloth managed them in at least some of the same ways. I also still have them, so they'll be used again. My niece didn't want to try them, but if my nephew has kids I'm sure he will, as both he and his partner are marine biologists / conservationists so have seen their fair share of the horrendous result of plastic & nappy pollution on the oceans. So if there's a similar carbon footprint to cloth nappies and disposables when used for one kid and managed in a very non-eco way, then in most real-life cases it's going to be less harmful to use cloth.Â
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
My daughter used cloth nappies for her two - the same nappies used again for child no.2 - and then passed them on to her brother and sister-in-law. They're being worn now by the fourth child.
I used cloth nappies for my children (both now in their 40s), at a time when there wasn't really an alternative - and am still using those nappies for various tasks. A thick one lives in the car to wipe the windscreen, and I've used others to make absorbant covers for the steam cleaner head. Not something you can do with disposables... Â
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
We were all at my In-laws' house trying some of FIL's homemade cider and got to talking about cloth nappies. He said he was still using my wife's old muslin nappies for all kinds of things around the house, cleaning the car, polishing things, wiping things down, straining his cider... I'm still not convinced he was joking.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Something tells me he's wrong.
Road accident deaths 2020:Â 1460
Covid deaths last WEEK:Â 909
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When you don't even know who's in the team
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When you don't even know who's in the team
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Fancy some Black Magic too? Happy to chuck some of those in the post too
I used cloth nappies for my children (both now in their 40s), at a time when there wasn't really an alternative - and am still using those nappies for various tasks. A thick one lives in the car to wipe the windscreen, and I've used others to make absorbant covers for the steam cleaner head. Not something you can do with disposables... Â