The diapers of our beloved babies and toddlers represent a considerable annual mass of waste. Energy Observer Solutions met up with Les Alchimistes, a company in the Paris region, which recycles diapers from four daycare centers and manages to make a quality compost from this hitherto unexploited bio-waste.
Every year in France, consumers buy and throw away 3.5 billion diapers. To recycle this waste, the start-up Les Alchimistes recovers the organic matter from the layers to make compost.
Undervalued waste
Used diapers represent huge waste streams, that mostly end up in incineration. In the first two years of life, babies consume an average of 2 to 8 diapers a day, and there…
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