Janie, I LS before putting in the bucket, and it's slowed the rate of disintegration, but not prevented it completely. Most of my nappies have disintegrated to some extent, even with rinsing. I tend to use a combination of BumGs with microfibre and a bamboo booster, and GKs now because at least the inserts are cheaper to replace than a whole fitted or AIO. And I always use my 'good' nappies just before a wash cycle so they are not in the bucket too long, and bamboo ones within 24 hours before washing. And I use sposies at night because I got sick of replacing night nappies.

So far I've completely lost about seven or eight nappies and inserts. About eight more are in non-saleable condition but still usable, and pretty much every bamboo nappy I own is a little bit more threadbare than what it started off as.

There was the 'bad batch of bamboo fleece' thing a while ago, but to be honest I think that it was a load of crap, considering that every single bamboo nappy I've had has been affected in some way or other.

Having heard this I'm now thinking of machine rinsing every morning, then doing a full wash every second or third day.