SHIBUSHI, KAGOSHIMA PREF. \u2013 <\/p>\n
Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan \u2014 more from seniors than babies \u2014 but a recycling breakthrough has given them a new lease of life, one hot mess at a time.<\/p>\n
A pilot project, billed as a world first, reuses the main ingredient in diapers to make new ones, offering hopes to ease bloated landfill sites and respond to a growing need for adult diapers in aging Japan.<\/p>\n
“Demand for baby diapers is falling. But a growing number of elderly people wear diapers, and more recently, even pets do too,” said Takahisa Takahara, president of Japanese hygiene product maker Unicharm, the firm behind the new initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHIBUSHI, KAGOSHIMA PREF. \u2013 Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15453,273,52243,111,139,69,3354,147,185627],"class_list":{"0":"post-358433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-elderly","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-kagoshima","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-recycling","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-unicharm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}