Cotton bottoms

With Real Nappy Week swinging into action on 23 April, Maggie Jones meets staff from nurseries and hospitals who have switched from disposables to cotton nappies Disposable nappies now form an estimated 4 per cent of all household waste in the UK, and 50 per cent of the waste of a household with one baby. Although it is illegal to dispose of untreated sewage in landfill, this is what disposables in effect do, releasing viruses and bacteria into the environment. The nappies also emit methane gas - a contributor to the greenhouse effect - and take up to 500 years...