Annette wrote:All we can do is spread the word. Unfortunately there is alot of money in disposable nappies and high street shops are going to be unwilling to swap this for something that only has a single sale value and you don't keep coming back to the store for more. The big disp companies have a far greater budget for marketing too. I think this is why it is such a shame that the local councils aren't doing much more, they are the ones who will benefit from the reduction in the cost of waste disposal - but in my experience they are very short sighted
I agree and I also think that the project managers that some councils have in place, running the schemes dont know enough themselves.
Now thats improvement and encouragement!
), and each of us get say 100 printed (much cheaper than buying sposies and maybe hopefully we can find a eco way of doing this) and put a few up in out local nurserys, baby clinics/clubs, doctors surgeries etc etc with proper cloth info including the statistics that MrClothMama is currently calculating, to promote cloth in our own way, at least we can then know the information given out is correct and even if only a couple from the 100 leaflets printed make a difference we will at least by saving at least 4000 nappies from landfill per child,
