WARRINGTON Borough Council is offering parents the chance to make a real difference to the environment by giving them 75 per cent off nappy starter packs and an introductory offer to a nappy laundry service.
The nappy starter packs will kit-out parents with enough nappies to start using and washing nappies at home, while the laundry service will clean nappies for the families.
This comes as parents in Warrington are being urged to think about where they dispose their baby’s nappies by the Women’s Environmental Network.
WEN will be asking parents to think about switching to cotton nappies in a bid to reduce the number of disposable ones being thrown into landfill sites.
As well as environmental benefits, cotton nappies also have an economical significance as it is estimated they can save parents £500.
It can take 500 years for a disposable nappy to decompose in a landfill site and it also takes seven million trees a year to manufacture them.
Another fact is it would take 50,000 bin wagons to carry all the disposable nappy waste generated in the UK each year.
All of these facts and further advice will be given during Real Nappy Week, which takes place from Monday to Sunday, April 27.
For more information contact Jo Petty on 01925 442 604.
