The turn of the year is always time for review, so while out walking with the better half and the boy we had a little review of how this whole simpler living experiment was working out. It’s a funny thing because lots of things we do are now just background everything on this list from a post on this back in May. It doesn’t feel like we’re doing much about it all really because it’s become normal.
I guess the biggest decision was incredibly mundane but has a massive impact. I am of course talking about nappies. Here are some horrible facts about disposable nappies:
- 8 million are used in the UK every day, 7.5 million end up in landfill
- That’s 3 billion a year and 1 million tonnes
- 500 years later they’ll still be where we buried them
- It costs the taxpayer £40 million a year to get rid of them
Plus the average baby uses about 5000 of them and we’ll save about £1000. But its a good example of the decisions you make. By choosing reusable nappies we trade up in water use – for some this is a bad thing, but we make a massive saving in waste and in money. We judged this to be worth it. It just isn’t that difficult a decision really.
We want to do better with where we buy our food this year, we’re still a bit too reliant on Tesco for our liking and would prefer more local solutions. Anyway, I’m up for suggestions as to what we can do to move this alongs?
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