There are many benefits to using real nappies. Benefits to your baby, to your pocket and to the environment.

Better for baby
Natural cotton/organic cotton is preferable to plastic containing chemicals...affecting sex hormones...

Baby boys who wear plastic disposable nappies have higher scrotal temperatures and this is believed to affect male fertility and increase the risk of testicular cancer.

Environmental reasons to choose cloth nappies
The key is to reduce the rubbish in your bin, significantly reducing rubbish going to landfill:

8% of Salisbury's Landfill site consists of Disposable nappies... & They are not expected to completely decompose for another 500 years...

Britain throws nearly 3 billion nappies away a year.

Nappy waste in Wiltshire costs £34 per tonne and 1000 tonnes per year.

It is estimated that over 25 million disposable nappies are landfilled in Wiltshire every year.

Dealing with disposable nappy waste costs the local authorities tens of thousands of pounds a year.

A baby can wear about 5,400 disposable nappies before they reach potty training age.

Using real nappies reduces the amount of waste sent for incineration and also the amount of energy and non-renewable resources used to produce disposables.
For more information see www.wen.org.uk/nappies/resources.htm

Financial Reasons to use cloth nappies
Real nappies could save parents £500 for their first child
Savings could be even greater with a second and third child.
Second hand nappies are cheaper still (check out the SRNN nappy exchange).

From birth to potty each baby typically gets through between 4,000 and 6,000 nappies.

Basic real nappies cost less than £2 each, with more sophisticated products costing around £3-10 each.