I was forwarded your e-mail about the problems you are facing. I believe that your bin has been emptied and that an inspector will be visiting to try to offer some help to avoid maggots in the green bin. Thank you for supporting recycling despite these set backs.
There are a number of residents in a similar position to you with regard real nappies. I can entirely understand your frustration with the lack of physical support to encourage the use of real nappies in Teignbridge although I would like to highlight that our experience so far does not necessarily support the belief that 'help' automatically equals 'use' of real nappies. I would recommend that you contact your local Councillor as a means of driving this issue further.
Devon is unique in that all the local authorities pay into a central pot to cover a series of different initiatives County wide. As part of this funding we have supported the real nappy campaign for a number of years and the amount of advice available in Devon is greater than some other areas. There is a good network of local agents throughout Devon that provide nappies however in Teignbridge there is no financial assistance available at present to incentivise households to change from disposables.
Overcoming the perceptions of effort and mess associated with real nappies appear to be one of the biggest hurdles to overcome. Recent roadshows have shown to be a great way to involve those who would not otherwise consider their use or consider it as a step backwards! Historically, roadshows have been a great way to make contact with families and highlight some of the environmental and financial benefits of using real nappies. These roadshows are organised throughout Devon and held around Real Nappy week every year. This ensures that the media are also running stories about real nappies helping our own budget stretch. I have been very impressed with the turn around for some people we talk to and we always try to keep the message help orientated rather than pressure based. These awareness raising activities are valuable and help normalise the use of the growing real nappy market. Two years ago we offered a birth to potty supply of real nappies for each of the local authority areas as a prize draw. The Teignbridge winner was from Ipplepen and delighted with the prize. Due to the initial start up costs of a real nappy system a voucher scheme could be of value however simply using real nappies will offer financial savings regardless of any start up scheme. I would be interested in your experiences of the cost issue and any ideas that would have helped you at the start up phase.
The Devon recycling partnership recently established a real nappy incentive scheme. Further details can be found at;
http://www.recycledevon.org/pages/info_realnappies.asp
Despite increasing the affordability of nappies, take up of the scheme has been disappointing with only a couple of households registering to date.
Nappy waste overall amounts to between 2% - 4% of the overall waste stream however this figure is misleading in that for the household concerned the amount is considerably more. The collection of disposable nappy waste is simply to acknowledge that the majority of households using nappies use disposables currently and that the alternate weekly collection regime is not suited to this quantity of additional waste. All nappy waste collected is sent to landfill.
Despite the clear advantages of promoting real nappies, funding of schemes to recover or reduce the 4% of the waste stream need to be carefully assessed. With regard recycling, we still have a long way to go to encourage recycling for some who still see it as a fad or 'not my problem' and we aim to move well beyond the 50% recycling and composting mark as soon as possible. Real nappies promotion will continue to feature in this plan and the importance felt by residents through Councillors will be one way that this unanimously benficial activity can be promoted futher.
I would like to thank you for taking the time to contact me and can only apologise that your enquiry was prompted by maggots.
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but the maggots you have its bad blimey 
but looking at that pictures made me feel 
Cannot beleive they haven't been to empty it yet!!!!!!!!!!!! thats proper health issues going on there!!
for the email though x
Poor you, I hate them things. It sounds silly but talking about creepy crawlies makes me itchy! Hope you get the prob sorted hun x
