We've always talked about using terry nappies. Unfortunately talking is as far as we've got. Although easy to use, disposable nappies are terrible for the environment - there's probably about two cubic miles of waste nappies on some tip in Canberra for which the Hickman family are responsible. We can console ourselves with thinking that it'll biodegrade sometime before the next ice age, or perhaps maybe not.
Our guilt was compounded last week when Babies R Us (surely they could have come up with a better name than that for a shop?) ran a half-price offer on our favoured brand of nappies. We therefore spent most of our savings on the things.
Our garage now has a pile of over 1,000 nappies in it. After they have 'passed through' our family they too will be transported to some far off tip where they'll fester for another 200 generations. If you're reading this 500 years in the future, circling the planet in a spaceship while looking down on the diseased and stinking planet earth. we're sorry.
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