Dutch to turn used diapers into outdoor furniture!

[terminator101]

The next time that you're lounging around outside your home in your yard on a plastic lawn chair while wearing a diaper (Some peeps here have mentioned doing so), consider the possibility that one day; the diaper that you're wearing may be recycled and made into another plastic lawn chair that another AB/DL will sit on outside his/her home in his/her yard while wearing a diaper~!


On September 2018, Dutch company ARVN BV built the first recycling plant in the Netherlands (And in the World) which is scheduled to process 15,000 tons of disposable diapers into reusable plastic and reusable energy resources (Read article -> http://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2...furniture.html or see video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg5Dn6Igfjg). The plant functions like a giant steel pressure cooker, using heat at a temperature of 250 degrees Celsius (Or 482 degrees Fahrenheit) and 40 bars of pressure to liquefy the used diapers into its component materials (Plastic, paper pulp and SAP [Super Absorbent Polymer]) and the waste (Pee and poop) into a slurry. Afterwards, the slurry is cooled down, allowing the plastic granules to float to the top. The granulated plastic is then removed and further refined in a granulator to become reusable plastic for making new products like outdoor furniture or flower pots. The waste slurry is fermented and can be used as fertilizer or placed into gas generators to release bio gas (Methane?) as fuel that will generate electricity and heat (See "What happens to the refined diaper slurry?" in the FAQ section of the company's promotional website -> http://www.recyclediapers.com/index.php#FAQ Note: The linked article says that the remainder is basically sewage that is redirected to a sewage treatment plant). Both used baby diapers and used adult diapers will be accepted for recycling (See "What is accepted in recycled diapers, and what is not accepted?" in the same FAQ section of the company's promotional website). So, the next time you take a poop or pee in your diaper, you can feel good about yourself knowing that possibly someday (Countries have been known to ship their garbage to other countries when some of their own landfills become nearly full), somewhere in the Netherlands, your used diaper may help build the future~!

Used baby and adult diapers can now be recycled into outdoor furniture.

ARVN BV conceptual steel reactor for recycling reusable plastic and reusable energy resources.

[DiapeePrincessSara]

That is pretty frigging awesome! In the summer I enjoy chilling in my yard or on my porch in a lawn chair wearing just a tee shirt and diaper or my onesie and matching diaper.

[terminator101]

Originally Posted by DiapeePrincessSara

That is pretty frigging awesome! In the summer I enjoy chilling in my yard or on my porch in a lawn chair wearing just a tee shirt and diaper ...

I'm glad to hear that you can contribute to the Droste effect (See -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect) that I previously described involving the recycled used diapers and yet to be produced lawn chairs~! Perhaps all of this could even be taken a step further if some diaper manufacturers contracted with the recycler to buy a more suitable version of the reclaimed plastic that can be used in the manufacture of new diapers (i.e. - Instead of a granulated form, perhaps ARVN BV or another company, contracted by ARVN BV, can compress the plastic into large, thin, film sheets that can then be later cut by the diaper manufacturers into the individual backsheets used in the manufacture of new disposable diapers. See diaper manufacturing video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siiY3OpnMBw)! If that happens, then disposable diapers would become, in an indirect sense, reusable diapers like cloth diapers instead of filling up the landfills~!

Droste effect (Left to right: Anime version based on original Droste cacao tin design, MC Escher artwork version and MLP version)







Used baby and adult diapers could be recycled into new diapers!

[veeload]

In my county they just burn all our garbage. They don't even sort it, just right into the furnace it goes. Such is the fate of everything I've thrown away over the last half decade or so. They "recycle" it into electricity so I guess it ain't all bad.

[terminator101]

Originally Posted by veeload

In my county they just burn all our garbage. They don't even sort it, just right into the furnace it goes. ...

Welcome to Diapered Anime, veeload~!


Hmm ... It sounds like your country is still using the decades old trash incinerators that do not produce much electricity and produce a lot of air pollution in the process, if indeed the trash was not sorted out prior to processing (See the following article -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy_plant). Modern Waste-to-energy plants sort out recyclable and hazardous materials prior to processing, produce useful amounts of electricity and do not produce as many air pollutants as coal plants but more than natural gas plants (See section in article -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-...lant#Pollution). I hope that for the sake of your own health that you do not live near one of those old trash incinerators (Respiratory problems like Asthma or worse, lung cancer, could possibly develop over time from long term exposure to air pollutants)!

[tb333]

Thats pretty creative....

[animeloveranddl087]

I think Japan did something similar? With electricity.....

Apparently it was a popular topic because The Loud House made a reference to it. (Look up episode "The Green House")

[terminator101]

Originally Posted by tb333

Thats pretty creative....

It's also good for the environment since the plastic components in the used diapers are recycled into reusable plastic and the fermented waste slurry from the used diapers can be used as fertilizer or to generate electricity and heat rather than all going straight into the landfills and uselessly sitting buried for decades.

Originally Posted by animeloveranddl087

I think Japan did something similar? With electricity.....

Apparently it was a popular topic ...

Thanks for the tip, animeloveranddl087! I searched and found an article about how Japanese diaper manufacturer, Unicharm, has a prototype recycling plant that is able to generate electricity from waste water, scraps of low quality pulp and solid waste derived from used diapers processed in the same plant. The generated electricity is then used to power the ozone processing system that follows the previous processing system on the same batch of used diapers processed in the same plant - According to the article, exactly how this is done is a trade secret but it mentions that microbial batteries are able to pull electrons from the waste mixture filtered through the batteries which results in electricity being generated and stored for use by the ozone processing system (See article -> https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Uni...o-clean-energy and diagram of the entire recycling process below). The final product is a clean, high quality pulp material that is used as part of the padding (Along with SAP [Super Absorbent Polymer] gel materials) in the manufacture of new disposable diapers! So in effect, Japan already has a prototype recycling plant that can aid in the creation of new disposable diapers from used disposable diapers!


However in Japan, the plastic used as the waterproof backsheet in the manufacture of new disposable diapers is still new and not recycled plastic. Perhaps Unicharm and the Dutch company ARVN BV should contact each other and form a joint venture to share information about Unicharm's process to generate electricity from diaper waste to help make ARVN BV's recycling process more self-sustaining/efficient and ARVN BV's process to create reusable plastic from used diapers, possibly for the creation of diaper backsheets so that an almost totally recyclable (Except for the SAP gel material that is still brand new, until someone figures out how to hygienically recycle that component as well) disposable diaper can be created~! Will wonders cease?

Diagram of Unicharm's recycling process.




High quality pulp recycled from used diapers to be used in the manufacture of new diapers.

[DazedNConfused]

Some people are already reusing the absorbent gel that's in used wet diapers by rinsing out the pee from the diapers in the shower, cutting open the diaper, squeezing out the gel and then using the reclaimed gel as compost -> https://www.recyclethis.co.uk/200803...nappiesdiapers, so a commercial plant could possibly rinse out, clean and then reclaim diaper gel for use in new diapers. It's probably just the idea of reusing gel that's been peed in by some people and then cleaned for reuse by others that the corporate marketing folks have to sell to consumers in order to make it happen.

[terminator101]

Originally Posted by DazedNConfused

Some people are already reusing the absorbent gel that's in used wet diapers by rinsing out the pee from the diapers ...

That article reminds me of the old saying "It's alright if it's your own." (It's what a parent would say if he or she gets peed on by their baby during a diaper change or in the case of a wearer of an adult diaper, their own pee). But I guess that if there was a commercial plant that could actually rinse out, sterilize and recycle the SAP gel from used diapers, it wouldn't turn off too many peeps from buying a new diaper made from such recycled materials. After all as we already saw, Unicharm has a prototype plant that recycles high grade pulp from used diapers that can be used as the padding in the manufacture of new diapers, so why not put recycled SAP gel into the same new diapers as well? It would further lower costs (For the manufacturers and the consumers) and help save the environment even more!