Terry cloth nappies were only more energy efficient when washed at low heat, with a full load and hung out on the line Traditional terry nappies are more environmentally-friendly than disposables, ...

Have the powers-that-be consigned the campaign for reusable nappies to the landfill site in the sky? That's the charge levelled at the government-funded Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap), ...

A COUNCIL which is being forced to make scathing cuts to services is paying parents £75 to launder nappies in a bid to protect the environment. Flintshire County Council Council have warned front-line ...

Last month, a group of County Durham mums started using real nappies as part of a six-month trial. As National Real Nappy Week gets underway, Women's Editor Christen Pears catches up with them to find ...

Disposable nappies - once the must-have of modern mothers everywhere - are in the dock. Disposable nappies - once the must-have of modern mothers everywhere - are in the dock. To mark this week's Real ...

Ten months ago the only nappy I’d ever charged was that of a plastic doll at the National Childbirth Trust class we attended, and even the pressure of getting that right made sweat drop down my back.

And Boots stores have been stocking Terry nappies, £9.50 for a pack of five, for many years. A few weeks ago, they added eco-friendly Cotton Bottoms products. Tracey Peggie, 35, an agent for Lollipop ...

DISPOSABLE nappies have been hailed by parents as one of the best labour-saving inventions of the 20th century. Mums in the 1970s spent hours scraping, soaking and boiling old-fashioned terry ...

When one Ipswich mum realised the nappies she was using on her baby were taking 500 years to decompose, she decided to switch to Terry towels. Another Suffolk mum believes by switching to cloth ...

A YOUNG mother is furious that she couldn’t find anywhere in Aberdare to buy traditional cloth nappies for her baby. A YOUNG mother is furious that she couldn’t find anywhere in Aberdare to buy ...

Car sharing. Domestic holidays. Terry nappies. Home drinking: it seems we’re all looking at ways to save money in the current squeeze. So what's the average Mancunian doing? We spoke to staff at ...