Bradford Bulls have thrown their weight behind a campaign to get more parents to help the environment by using real nappies.

Dumping disposable nappies on landfill sites costs taxpayers in the city £800,000 a year.

Now Bradford Council has joined forces with the Super League team and charity workers to promote Real Nappy Week.

To kick off the week starting on Monday, the Bradford Real Nappy Project has commissioned a Bulls nappy which was modelled by toddlers at Odsal Stadium yesterday.

The project is run by charity worker Cathy Henwood with the aim of getting more parents to buy environmentally-friendly reusable nappies.

She said: "Eight million disposable nappies are thrown away in Britain every day but they are neither cheap nor truly disposable. Bradford Council spends more than £800,000 dumping them on landfill sites where they can take up to 500 years to degrade.

"The tide of opinion about real nappies is changing. They are now a range of colours and designs and can be washed at 60 degrees. The image of a smelly nappy being boiled in a pot has gone."

Bulls spokesman Stuart Duffy said: "We are very much a family-orientated club and are pleased to support Real Nappy Week and happy to be involved with anything like this which promotes recycling and helps the environment."

A Real Nappy Fashion Show has been organised for Thursday in the Delius Bar, St George's Hall, between 10am and noon to showcase the different designs and products of real nappy available.