I just don't get it!

I just don't get it, really, I don't. Environmental chaos is likely in my lifetime, never mind my sons' lifetime, yet it feels as though the majority of the world can't see any connection between their actions and any problems there might be in the world at large.

Yes, the government really should be doing more about it, but then so should we. Our refusal to do anything ourselves is as perverse as George W's refusal to do anything because the developing world won't.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no activist, I like the easy life as much as the next person, but when faced with the bags of plastic, from my over packaged purchases, being chucked on the incinerator or buried in landfill, even I see there has to be something I can do to reduce it.
I always paid the idea of recycling lip service, and saved up my paper etc, but usually ended up binning my personal mountain of recycling as getting to the recycling centre was just too much effort.

It was when I used disposable nappies on my newborn and I realised just how much waste we were producing, that I was finally pushed into doing something about it.

A whopping 8% of household waste is used disposable nappies. These nappies take HUNDREDS of years to break down. Essentially your babies poo will still be festering away in their very own time capsule long after your great-great-great-great...grandchildren have been and gone after a long life. A long life balanced precariously on top of the layer of dirty nappies covering the world...

I get the need to make life as easy as possible, really I do, but are the consequences worth avoiding the huge extra effort involved in loading the washing machine twice a week?