Waste

Disposable nappies account for <4% household waste in the UK*.

The facts as we know them today...

Human society, like everything else in nature, has always generated waste and will continue to do so. Every process, domestic, industrial, extractive or agricultural, generates waste in one form or another.

Waste comes from:

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* Household waste prior to sorting for recycling. To read more about this click here.

Our point of view...

As most of us know, landfill is the normal waste stream for most waste in the UK today. Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies®, is focused on achieving its ambition of sending zero manufacturing waste to landfill and reducing the impact of its nappies once consumers have used them.

Kimberly-Clark believes that the development of alternative waste disposal methods is key to reducing the country's reliance on landfill and the impact of all disposable waste on the environment.

Kimberly-Clark is constantly researching waste disposal alternatives to landfill - an example of this is our latest initiative in New Zealand where a pioneering nappy composting facility has been set up with the financial support of the Huggies® brand.

Kimberly-Clark has and will continue to design its Huggies® products to be compatible with all new major waste streams.

You may be interested to know what we are doing...

Kimberly-Clark has been focused on reducing the waste generated in the manufacture and use of its Huggies® products, through product design, packaging and manufacturing process innovation.

• Today around one third of the materials used in Huggies® nappies are made from natural materials.
• Huggies® wipes are made from two thirds natural materials.
• 17% through improved absorbency. Less bulky nappies mean more comfort for your little one, while putting less waste in landfills.
• From 1995 to 2009, the weight of the average Huggies® nappy has been reduced by retailers are made from 100% recycled material.
• All the brown boxes used to transport Huggies® nappies and wipes from our plants to
• Huggies® largest manufacturing site - located at Barton-Upon-Humber, UK, aims to send  no manufacturing waste to landfill. In 2008 they met this target.

Kimberly-Clark's nappy manufacturing facility at Barton-upon-Humber was recognised for Recycling and in 2008 was shortlisted for the SARA recycling awards in the category of "Best Overall Sustainable Management Solutions".

• Huggies® nappies are compatible with new waste disposal methods, such as Mechanical Biological Treatment and Energy from Waste