People's Supermarket founder’s green baby message - Arthur Potts Dawson wants parents to use "eco" nappies and cut landfill

Published: 25 March 2011
by JOSH LOEB

CHEF and People’s Supermarket founder Arthur Potts Dawson has called for more parents to dress their babies in fashionable “eco” nappies.

Toddlers strutted their stuff on the catwalk at an event to promote reusable nappies in Coram’s Fields, Holborn, yesterday (Thursday) as part of Climate Week.

Mr Potts Dawson said the “zero waste” alternative was more environmentally friendly than disposable nappies, 200,000 tonnes of which go into landfill every year. 

The People’s Supermarket, in Lamb’s Conduit Street, is currently facing a £78,000 business rates bill from Camden Council. The government had previously written to ask the Labour-run authority to grant a discretionary rate relief – but councillors are pressing ahead with taking the shop to court. 

Mr Potts Dawson sought to play down the political arguments about the shop, which flared up between Labour and the Conservatives.

He said the community retail project had “always had a lot of support from Camden Council” and was now planning to pay up.

He added: “We were just a political football. We are not a politically affiliated business. 

“This all came about after David Cameron visited the supermarket and asked us what he could do to help. He tried to help by writing a public letter, which I didn’t think was that helpful.”