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ECO-FRIENDLY BABY CARE We’ve got the whole world in our hands
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to incentivise us to use them, nor enough have been feeling pretty deflated and be leaving our children to inherit a cleaner powerless since it was announced that Earth and a healthier, happier future. awareness in general. we will be leaving the EU. A big decision has been taken out of Earlier this year, Eyleen Sheil gave an Admittedly, I don’t do enough our hands that will have a huge We need to inspiring lecture at Gib Talks in which she at the moment myself. As a impact on our children’s future. parent of two small children I get emphasised the small everyday steps we turn our energy through mountains of nappies, can all take to improve the environment. towards progress wet wipes, plastic and piles of Inspired by this, I have come up with 11 On top of that, the new PM and work as a simple ideas to get us on the road to imTheresa May has made the washing. However, making a few group to tackle proving the planet as parents. worrying decision to abolish changes at this critical time could climate change. the Department for Energy not only result in a cleaner planet and Climate Change. This for us all, but also be kinder on 1. Nappies and wipes - Firstly, I took attitude towards the environment is parthe purse too. on one of the worst offenders, ticularly worrying and we can only hope There are wet wipes. After a quick google, I it isn’t echoed over here. After all, the To not recycle is frowned upon not enough discovered reusable wipes, which BBC recently published the World Health in the UK. Most local authorities are much gentler on baby’s bottom. initiatives to Organization’s ten worst British cities for have recycling schemes; bins incentivise us For someone like myself who was air pollution - and Gibraltar was the worst are provided and collected on a put off by the large initial expense to use them, culprit by a significant margin. regular basis. I can’t remember of using cloth nappies, this seemed nor enough the last time I visited a house to be a good compromise to begin awareness in However, moping won’t get us anywhere, where the inhabitants didn’t my journey towards greener pargeneral. we need to turn our energy towards progrecycle, whether it was wilfully enting. It is a contentious issue as ress and work as a group to tackle climate or begrudgingly. Whilst there to whether cloth nappies themchange. If we all started taking steps to are numerous recycle bins dotted around selves are environmentally friendly, but improve our carbon footprint, then we’d Gibraltar, there are not enough initiatives it is essentially down to how you launder 96
GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE AUGUST 2016