Real Nappy Week

With Real Nappy Week steadily approaching, we are getting ready for our event. As last year, we are holding it at Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre in Kings Heath, Birmingham. The Leisure Centre is very popular with families and has loads of fun things going on.
We have invited lots of suppliers, manufacturers and agents to come along and bring their nappies and accessories to display. There will be information and competitions, discounts and freebies.
If you are in the Birmingham area, please come along on Tuesday 27th April from 10.00am till 12.00pm.
For more information you can either contact Birmingham City Council on 0121 303 5446 or Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre on 0121 464 1996.
We have a good supply of pre loved nappies in the office, some of which have been very generously donated and some that have seen better days from our nappy library. We are looking at the possibility of sending these nappies abroad where they will be appreciated. Does anyone know of any charities that would be able to accept these nappies?

I feel awful saying how pleased I am that the snow has finally disappeared, but it is just so disruptive. The first few flakes fall and it is so exciting, then it settles and we think about making snow shapes – I loved the one of the Simpsons sitting on the sofa! But oh how tedious it is to be in traffic for hours, and worry about accidents both on foot and in the car. School closures, plus, you just know that once the snow has cleared, the road will be full of potholes. In these circumstances I do kind of envy the 8% of people who work mainly from home in Birmingham.
For a while now I have wondered where we got the data and statistics that are so widely used, for example, “disposable nappies make up 4% of all household waste”. I have just read an article written in 1996 which was linked with The Women’s Environmental Network. This 4% waste figure apparently refers to two London Boroughs, in 1992. Surely this figure has significantly grown by now. Does anyone have any more up to date information that we could use?
Is there anyone in Birmingham who would like to be a Community Recycling Champion? We need people to work in their neighbourhoods, to encourage and support other residents to “Recycle for Birmingham”. The Champions would offer commonsense advice and support and stop false rumours with facts about what happens to recycled items collected in Birmingham. The Council will provide information to pass on by email or by post, and for those who wish to talk to officers face to face, at meetings.