Tokyo: The Kiodo news agency reported that the swelling lining of used adult diapers, which is the mountains of used adult diapers, Japanese manufacturers find them – to transform waste into resources to curb burning and carbon dioxide emissions, Kyodo News Agency said.
This follows the Ministry of the Environment 2020, which promotes recycling of used diapers, encouraging private companies and local administration to develop solutions.
The production of children’s diapers has fallen in the midst of a declining rate of birth in Japan, but demand for adult products is expected to increase.
The proportion of used diapers is generally predicted to increase by about seven percent in 2030, compared to about 5 % per year 2020, according to the ministry.
Used diapers are usually burned with general waste, but their high moisture content makes it difficult to burn and reduce the effectiveness of combustion.
The diapers are made of materials such as high quality mass, resin and absorbent substances. The mass can be separated and reused through a process called horizontal recycling that converts products into raw materials to repeat the original product according to the instructions.
Earlier this month, Kao Corp. signed the contract with the city of Kamikatu in Tokushima’s prefecture, West Japan, to start demonstration tests at the end of the year to produce an energy source that can serve as an alternative to fossil fuels using diapers collected in the city.
Since Kao has been involved in a similar trial with Saijo City in the Ehime Prefecture of Neighboring Stations since 2021, the company official said that the system has the advantage of being handed over and reduced from their original volume to twenty.
“We want to explore what business opportunities have, even though we still have challenges in terms of costs,” the official said.
In collaboration with two municipalities in the Kagoshima Prefekture in Japan, Unicarm Corp. has begun to sell diapers made after sterilized mass sterilized mass returned from used products, as part of its horizontal recycling efforts.
Daio Paper Corp. has also joined the diaper recycling projects with three Fukuoku-Prefecture local government, including in southwestern Japan. – Bernama/Kyodo