A rapidly aging population is leaving Japan awash with a smelly problem: piles of dirty diapers. With 28 million citizens aged 65 or older, Japan is going through more than 5 billion adult diapers annually. One company, SuperFaiths, is finding a new life for all those nappies - its SFD Recycle System dries, crushes, and sterilizes used diapers before turning the material into pellets for use in stoves and biomass boilers.
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Used Adult Diapers - The Fuel Of Tomorrow, Today!
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Re: Used Adult Diapers - The Fuel Of Tomorrow, Today!
That's brilliant! I think there's a lot of low-hanging fruit like this we could probably take advantage of if we could get over some of our revulsion to things like recycling poop.
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Re: Used Adult Diapers - The Fuel Of Tomorrow, Today!
Stinky diapers being turned into biomass pellets. I can see some irony in that!