Babies who use disposable diapers They spend about 6,000 diapers on average in the first two years of life. Of those 6,000 diapers is recycled ... nothing.
With such a large amount of untreated waste it seemed logical that someone would look for a way to treat them and get something with them and a French company seems to have gotten to work.
Suez Environment and its subsidiary company Sita have initiated a research program to get recycle used diapers to get energy, fertilizer and new materials from plastic that contain.
The research has been called "Happy nappy" and with it you want to divide each diaper into two raw materials: organic waste that produces biogas, able to generate energy, waste that can also be used to obtain composite fertilizer and plastics, whose recycling you want to get recycled materials.
To achieve this you have to separate the different components of the used diaper, which will have:
- Plastics: between 10 and 20%.
- Super absorbent polymers: from 5 to 10%.
- Fibers: from 10 to 20%.
- Organic waste: from 50 to 70%.
You just need to know what is the cost of getting used diapers (the used diaper container does not exist yet) and the cost of dividing them into different parts to contrast it with the benefits obtained from biogas, fertilizer and recycled plastics. Because if it is not profitable, although it would be great if they were recycled, I doubt it will take place.
