Bamboo for Babies – the Crags Eco Nappy Project

When you hear the words ‘reusable nappy’, the images of old terry cloth, enormous safety pins and bulging bottoms might come to mind.

But the true cost of single-use nappies is that they are made from resource expensive plastics, elastics, adhesives, paper pulp, and chemicals – all of which take hundreds of years to break down.

With this in mind, we recently partnered with the Crags Eco Nappy project, donating enough bamboo fabric to make 1200 cloth nappies for parents of the Covie and Kurland communities in Plettenberg Bay.

The Crags Eco Nappy Project

Run by the Southern Crags Conservancy, this local non-profit initiative helps families ditch the disposables and start a more affordable way of diapering that’s better for the planet too. As a result, all the new parents of the Kurland and Covie communities of Plettenberg Bay were given a cloth nappy starter kit, including 4 bamboo nappies and instructions for use. To make sure the project is sustainable for the Ubuntu sewing group, the rest of the nappies produced will be on sale to the wider Crags community at an affordable price.

Why Bamboo?

As a soft breathable fabric, bamboo nappies produce less odour and help to regulate temperature. These cloth nappies have been carefully designed by the Unbuntu sewing group to form a snug fit with an easy-to-wash, double layer liner. A cost effective and environmentally friendly alternative to the toss-away nappies that many parents in Kurland and Covie simply cannot afford.