Nappies

Nappy waste can be reduced by changing to real nappies.

As nappies are technically non-recyclable the only way to prevent the nappy mountain landfill problem is to use washable nappies as an alternative to disposables. The Real Nappy Project encourages parents, nurseries, clinics and hospitals to use washable nappies and reduce the volume of disposables going into the waste stream.

Can be recycled at: Kerbside: NO Bring Sites: NO Battlefield HRC: NO

Every baby uses about 6,000 nappies before potty training.

That is equivalent to:

• 4-5 trees
• 325kg of plastic waste
• 1 tonne of landfill

Disposable nappies are not biodegradable take up to 500 years to decompose in landfill sites and can harbour up to 100 different types of virus, including live polio virus from vaccines. These viruses survive for over 2 weeks. Equivalent waste from hospitals is treated as clinical waste and is not deemed safe to be dumped in landfill sites.