At the heart of Green Bottoms lies the concept of nappy recycling. When we realised in 2009 that people were working on the technology to recycle disposable nappy waste, we got excited about how this could help our environment by reducing landfill waste, repurposing valuable material and creating new energy sources. We wanted to get involved and help make it a reality.

When we researched the market we were struck by another important realisation. It was apparent that many nurseries were getting a raw deal from their waste management suppliers, so we created Green Bottoms and set out to solve both problems. Our mission remains giving nurseries a supplier who consistently provides a good service, at a fair price and with fair contract terms, and at the same time help the environment by choosing the most environmentally friendly treatment for their waste.

MAY 2009

Green Bottoms was established with the goals of radically improving waste disposal services for nurseries and helping to minimise the environmental impact of disposable nappies

MAR 2011

We branched out from our home region of the Midlands to offer our services on a semi-nationwide basis

SEP 2011

Green Bottoms became the first company to offer a recycling solution for nursery nappy waste with the opening of the UK’s first ever specialist facility for recycling nappy waste

NOV 2012

We were named Nursery Supplier/Innovator of the Year at the prestigious NMT Nursery Awards

JAN 2013

We celebrate recycling over 2 million nappies for our customers in 2012

JAN 2014

As we explore a variety of energy-from-waste solutions, including sending nappy waste up the Thames on barges, Knowaste announce they are relocating to a new facility in the London area

MAR 2014

We moved our HQ to its current location in the sunny countryside on the Northamptonshire/Leicestershire border

MAY 2014

Green Bottoms celebrate 5 years

JUL 2015

We conduct our largest ever customer survey and over 95% report that they are Happy (27%) or Very Happy (68%) with 4.5% satisfied and no-one unsatisfied

DEC 2016

With at least 3 facilities for recycling nappy waste either open or due to open, we look forward to resuming our original nappy recycling mission in 2017