Can you imagine how much garbage we organize only with our babies' used diapers? About 1800 diapers a year, tons of waste that are not beneficial for the environment ... Well now a Canadian company seems to have found the solution: recycle diapers to make methane.
The Knowaste company has invented this recycling system, and the methane obtained can be sold to the national gas network. The first of the five plants intended to recover the plastic and fibers used to make these synthetic cloths will open in Birmingham. Then, in Manchester, Liverpool and London.
And it is that the British Government seems to be very aware of the problems that such amount of diapers cause to the environment. For them, washable diapers are not the solution, since after years of study it was announced that the ecological effects of cloth diapers and disposables were the same (due to the electricity spent on washing and drying reusable diapers).
The United Kingdom will not be the pioneer in using this recycling system, since the company has so far opened plants in Canada and the Netherlands. With the first British plant you can recycle about 36,000 tons per year of waste.
At the moment, this new diaper recycling project will have very specific collection points (shopping centers and nurseries), but the company hopes that in the future the municipalities will enable special recycling containers, since, in addition to plastic, they can be reused Cellulose fibers and absorbent polymers.
It seems like a good idea to recycle diapers, which in addition to taking care of the environment (it is assumed that these plants are not so polluting) generates employment in times of crisis, so in the UK they are delighted with the project.
