Best eco friendly disposable nappies?

[AlexNe]

HI everyone. Can anyone please recommend some good eco-friendly disposable nappies? We've toyed with the idea of reusable for a while, but I am not sure I would be able to cope with them, and really conscious about the nappies going in the landfill ... Any brands tested for newborns?

But what about the brown bin (at least it's brown in our council area) where you put food and garden waste and compostable materials? Do you think there's any scope to put them in there instead of landfill? I'm not actually what happens to that waste.

@Esto I imagine when the waste is being sorted, nappies would be removed as they’ll be seen as contamination. Biodegradable is different to compostable.

Don't put them in the council compost bin, please! It is not for poo, human or otherwise.
We process the green waste from our local council. It is sorted by hand. I'd rather not have to deal with pooey nappies ta.

Hmm. Feels slightly pointless using them if they're just going to get buried and not biodegrade.

I've really struggled to make both washable nappies and washable wipes work for us but I guess I'll try again.

@esto do you have one of the all in one wipe systems with the boxes and mesh bags?
We still use disposables when we go out, but a packet can last a month.

Cheeky Wipes are amazing and so much better at cleaning poo than disposables. Reusable nappies aren't much work either. We use all in ones and just do a nappy wash every couple of days. They're barely any extra work and they don't ever leak poo like disposables.

Have you considered using reusables when youre at home, and just saving disposables for when you need to be out and about etc? It doesnt have to be one or the other. Im strongly in favour of reusables and found them MUCH less work than I was expecting them to be.
You basically just have a bucket you throw the dirty ones in - the poo stays on the liner which is flushed, and then you bung the nappies on a 60 wash every couple of days. Its actually really easy.
Then save the disposables for what they were designed for, which is occasional use when inconvenienient to carry or wash ones.

As for eco disposables, I think I used eco naty, which you get in some supermarkets and they are fine, and i also used moltex oko, which were better, but much more expensive. I think with disposable nappies though, its about which brand suits your babys shape, but I never found any disposable particularly bombproof when it came to poo-splosions, whereas a decent shaped cloth nappy with a wrap could contain anything

@britnay I have spent the morning looking at this and was disappointed that we couldn’t dispose of them that way.

I’m going to a nappy library in a few weeks to find out a bit more and how to use them. I’ve also been looking at the cheeky wipes system too. I’ll be speaking to DH as it’s a joint decision, but seems it might be workable.

I do have cheeky wipes. I'm going to go and sort them just now for using.

With cloth nappies I know I sound like a wuss but both my children have toddler diarrhoea so nappies are a frequent and messy affair in our house. The times I've used cloth nappies I've just found it absolutely horrendously disgusting, multiple times a day. I've tried using the flushable liners but it was still pretty gross. I will try again though. I'll be brave

Not at all @esto. It’s just disgusting, lol!

actually explosive diarroeah is where i find a decent fitting cloth nappy and a close fitted wrap really work best. I never found a disposable that didnt leak at the legs or up the back when mine did poosplosions. A tots bots and a rikki wrap contained everything, and id rather wash it off a nappy than have to peel shitty clothes off, because you have to wash those anyway, and youre still dealing with poo whatever you do.
Disposable liners as you say, are useless for that. You need fleece liners, which you then hold by one corner and rinse as much as possible off under the flush when you flush the loo. Then put it in the bucket as normal, or straight into the wash if you prefer

We always loved the Naty nappies – worked well with the poop and had some eco credentials and pretty competitive. We did use Bambo for a little while and (I'm not sure if they still sell them) but we found a great website called The Conscious Parent who sometimes had offers on the Bambo range. https://theconsciousparent.co.uk/product-category/nappies/ Always worth trying to do some searches for discount vouchers as well. We used to find a few websites that had free vouchers for a percentage off. Hope the hunt goes well!