AWARD WINNING ECO-FRIENDLY HEMP CLOTH NAPPIES

Article by : www.biobaba.co.za

FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW WHEN DECIDING ON NAPPIES:

•    If you have a baby in disposable nappies in your home, your household waste doubles! 
•    In 2½years in disposable nappies a baby will have:
-    used 325 kg of plastic
-    20 trees worth of paper
-    produced at least 1tonne+ landfill space

•    Disposable nappies are pegged at the world’s 3rd biggest household waste contributors behind newspapers at No.1 and containers/packaging for food. Your household is no different… millions are thrown away annually in SA, 9 million a day in the UK and 20 billion a year in the US and Canada…they do not bio-degrade!

Saliem Haider at the City Waste Mangement, Cape Town, has this to say

“Cape Town is facing a major landfill airspace crisis. Two years ago 6 landfills were operational, and a few months from now we would have only 3 operational…

There are some smaller municipalities in the Western Cape with bigger problems than Cape Town. The Johannesburg City area also has a crisis at hand.”

•    Waste in South Africa is currently growing at 5% faster than the population growth

Nappies are classified as medical waste and should be incinerated – however individual municipalities in South Africa do not have the resources to do so; we all have a mandate to watch over our resources…
Landfill sites are not designed or allowed to contain faeces, human or otherwise, and thus have no solution to the enormous number of soiled disposable nappies arriving daily. Baby ‘poop’ in disposable nappies SHOULD be flushed down the toilet before the nappy is disposed of correctly in the sewarge system  – however not many people know this or can be bothered to do it before chucking their nappies in the bin.

ENERGY & RESOURCE IMPACT STATISTICS: DISPOSABLES VS REUSABLES
Requires 3.5 x more energy to produce
Uses 8 x more non-regenerable raw materials
Uses 90 x more renewable material
Produces 2.3 x as much waste water
Produces 60 x as much solid waste
Needs 4 – 30 x more land for growing natural materials

•    Take 5 fingers and put them on your nose…that is where the buck stops. Reduce, Re-use, Re-cycle. Children live what they learn… choose a sustainable future for your baby.

For more information on incorporating cloth nappies into your routine, please contact: Bio-Baba Nappies: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call: 021 761 89 82

CLOTH NAPPY FAQ:

- we are locally made so do not have a large carbon footprint

- we use small underpriveleged companies in Lotus River, Mitchells Plain and Athlone for our manufacturing

- we only use 100% natural fibres against babies' skin which is very important to us - using man-made fibres such as viscose/polyester/synthetic fleece against babies' skin is not ideal (hot & clammy!); and of course the process of making syntheitc fabrics uses lots of water and chemicals

- absorbency - you can not beat the absorbency of our nappies (once the hemp has been washed for a week or 2!) - the fact that we have 2 microfibre layers sewn in to the nappy and that every nappy comes with a 3 layered hemp pad makes these nappies really effective, especially when baby is bigger and the extra absorbency is needed in order to avoid changing every 5 seconds! A thin/small snug-fitting nappy might appeal in the beginning, but as soon as baby is a little bigger you will REALLY appreciate the extra absorbency of the Bio-Baba! Slightly bulky when baby is little is a small price to pay for an effective nappy in the long run!

- durability - our customers can vouch for the durability of our nappies = we even have a few clients using them on baby number 3! This means a lot to us, especially since it is an investment - you don't want the nappy falling apart after a few months use. This is also where the quality of our natural fabrics comes into play.

- versatility - being able to be used as a great night nappy, swim/beach nappy and for potty training makes this a really cost effective nappy...with most other systems you probably will have to purchase these extras at an added expense. The fact that every Bio-Baba comes with a hemp booster pad for when baby is bigger MUST be factored into the cost calculations since most other cloth nappy brands do not include their boosters which have to be bought separately.

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