Should there be a tax on disposable nappies?

PUTTING a ‘green’ tax on nappies is an excellent idea (Mail). How many plastic plates, forks and straws does a family use? Banning them will have a minute impact. Yet it is reckoned that a child gets through 4,000 disposable nappies by the time he or she is potty-trained. With the number of disposable nappies sold, unless it hits them in the pocket, there is no incentive for the manufacturers to come up with a more planet-friendly version that will not take hundreds of years to decompose.

L. RICHARDS, Bristol.

THIS is not a tax on parenthood. With an automatic washing machine and tumble drier, it’s not hard labour to wash

terry nappies. Parents need to teach their children to do as little damage to the planet as possible. It’s big business driving up the costs of parenthood with unnecessary products for children. The world won’t change unless we start protecting our precious resources.

Mrs L. J. HOBLEY, Tring, Herts. GOING back to terry nappies would mean a boil wash and tumble drying. How would this save the environment?

E. COMMON, Hornchurch, Essex. FAMILIES will pay the nappy tax because there is no way they will go back to terry nappies, even for the sake of the planet.

SANDRA HAYWOOD, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Notts. THERE is a landfill crisis and nappies are contaminating recycling. Potty-training from birth is the most natural way to care for your baby, keeping him or her happy, clean and free of nappy rash.