Scottish Nappy Company News http://www.scottishnappy.co.uk/news.htm All things Scottish Nappy en-gb 2007 Scottish Nappy Company Ltd. fraser@scottishnappy.co.uk fraser@scottishnappy.co.uk SNC Logo http://www.scottishnappy.co.uk/favicon.gif http://www.scottishnappy.co.uk/news.htm LGA response to flawed Report http://www.lga.gov.uk/PressRelease.asp?lsection=07&id=SX889A-A7845A26 Local Government Association response to Ben Bradshaw's dredging up of the highly-flawed 2005 Environment Agency Life Cycle Assessment of Disposable and Reusable Nappies. SNC response to flawed Report http://www.scottishnappy.co.uk/response2.pdf Company response to the highly-flawed Environment Agency Life Cycle Assessment of Disposable and Reusable Nappies in the UK which was released in 2005 and has recently been irresponsibly dredged up again in July 2007 by Ben Bradshaw. Now stocking Ocean Pure Spray http://www.scottishnappy.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=25_47_50 We now stock products from Ocean Pure. They provide an alternative to using wet-wipes at nappy changing time. The product is a 100ml recyclable spray can containing a sterile, isotonic solution derived from seawater. The corresponding natural cotton wipes are not chlorine bleached and are machine washable. Mothers still doing lion's share of nappy changing http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1028882007 Only one in 100 fathers is the "chief nappy changer", according to a survey. Almost one in four parents shares nappy-changing duties with their partner - but there is some way to go in the rise of the "new dad". Britain's Loos Treated As A Giant Dustbin http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1271731,00.html Loos in Britain are being treated as dustbins, with people flushing away much more than human waste and toilet roll, the environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy has found. Nappies Blamed For Chemical Alert http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1463669.0.nappies_blamed_for_chemical_alert.php News article about binmen hospitalised by used disposables reacting with domestic chemical Manufacturers must destroy nappy mountain http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23389104-details/Manufacturers%20must%20help%20destroy%20the%20'nappy%20mountain'/article.do Manufacturers must help foot the multi-million pound annual bill for disposing of the growing "nappy mountain", council leaders said have said. Real Nappy Week http://cartside.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2007/3/10/2795279.htm Blog about starting up with real nappies and Glasgow Council's shortcomings Nappy Nightmares http://freyaanddot.blogspot.com/2007/02/nappy-nightmares-ever-tried-to-get.html Blog about so-called Eco-friendly disposables SNC Gold Winner in Green Apple Awards http://www.thegreenorganisation.info The Scottish Nappy Company recently became a Gold Winner in the National Green Apple Awards 2006 for Environmental Best Practice. Furthermore, to celebrate our award, Tree Appeal has planted a broad-leafed tree on our behalf! Nappy to Help http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sexandhealth/features/tm_method=full%26objectid=17942820%26siteid=66633-name_page.html Feature in the Daily Record where the author swapped to reusable nappies and tested them out for a week Real Sense in Nappy Change http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=312022006 Article in the Edinburgh Evening News Misconceptions about cloth nappies http://www.wen.org.uk/general_pages/Newsitems/pr_RNfL_1.8.06.htm Results of new research summarised by the Womens Environmental Network Yummy Mummy http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1418&id=1255322006 Article in the Scotsman Study done at Keil University http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/83/4/364 Scientists believe disposable nappies could be linked to both male infertility and testicular cancer