An online survey commissioned by nappy recycling company Knowaste, which received 1,600 responses, found that 95 per cent of respondents want disposable nappy recycling as part of their standard household waste collection.
Chief executive Roy Brown said, 'The findings clearly show that parents are seriously concerned about the number of disposable nappies they throw away on a daily basis.'
He added, 'The Government has spent over £30m encouraging people to use reusable nappies. Rather then trying to change people's behaviour, we should try to find a solution to using disposable nappies'.
Mr Brown estimated that nappies make up to 6 per cent of household waste.
The recycling plant, due to open at the end of the year in Tyseley, Birmingham, and capable of recycling 30,00 tonnes of nappies a year, will enable nurseries and parents to recycle their nappies at normal recycling rates with little inconvenience, significantly reducing the amount of nappy waste sent to the region's shrinking available landfill.
The company hopes to open plants in Manchester, London and Newcastle in the next five years.
Knowaste, which has opened sites in Canada and Holland, estimates that these plants would divert 13 per cent of all the country's nappy waste away from landfill, creating plastic cladding, plastic wood and green energy from recycled nappies.
The company says it will now approach politicians with results from the survey and encourage the Government to get behind programmes to tackle the problem of disposing nappies in landfill sites.