Disposable nappies cannot be recycled at municipal recycling centres or via kerbside collections. As composite materials, they are extremely difficult to recycle and so almost all disposable nappies go to landfill – an astonishing 3 billion nappies every year. That’s 8 million every day! The environmental impact of all this waste material going to landfill is huge, and at an average of £700 per baby, so is the monetary cost of the nappies themselves. So why not save the environment and some money by buying re-usable cotton nappies instead?
