From Cleo Mussi, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK
Alice Klein looks at the impacts of disposable and reusable nappies (24 November, p 22). Bringing up two babies in the 1990s, living in a flat and working part-time, cloth nappies were a perfectly easy, though unconventional, option. I even air-dried them, but I had to be organised.
I wonder whether the research comparing them to disposables took into account the fact that babies using cloth nappies tend to be toilet-trained day and night at a much earlier age – there is little more uncomfortable than a wet cloth nappy. A difference of six months to a year would lead to a child using 1100 to 2200 extra disposable diapers or nappies – a lot of extra landfill.
