Recycling Nappies Into Roads!

Being a new parent, I have had to get my hands dirty (quite literally!) with changing nappies over the past couple of years. I was therefore interested to read about Pura NappiCycle and their efforts to recycle disposable nappies in the UK.

Pura NappiCycle estimate that 3 billion disposable nappies are used each year in the UK. These nappies are then sent to landfill, where it is thought that they will remain for over 500 years. Clearly, something needs to be done about this ever-increasing problem.

Pura NappiCycle is a collaboration set up in 2020 between NappiCycle, a company that has been recycling nappies in Wales for more than 10 years using a process that allows them to recover the valuable materials, and Pura, an eco-friendly provider of baby care products. Their aim is to try to expand the initiative currently in place in Wales to the rest of the UK, with Pura investing heavily in further research and development at NappiCycle.