{"id":414721,"date":"2026-04-01T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/414721\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:05:10","slug":"dirty-diapers-born-again-in-japan-recycling-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/414721\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty diapers born again in Japan recycling breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                      SHIBUSHI, KAGOSHIMA PREF. \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan \u2014 more from seniors than babies \u2014 but a recycling breakthrough has given them a new lease of life, one hot mess at a time.<\/p>\n<p>A pilot project, billed as a world first, reuses the main ingredient in diapers to make new ones, offering hopes to ease bloated landfill sites and respond to a growing need for adult diapers in aging Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Demand for baby diapers is falling. But a growing number of elderly people wear diapers, and more recently, even pets do too,&#8221; said Takahisa Takahara, president of Japanese hygiene product maker Unicharm, the firm behind the new initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHIBUSHI, KAGOSHIMA PREF. \u2013 Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[18,5321,440,19,17,67280,2375,133,183551],"class_list":{"0":"post-414721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-elderly","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kagoshima","14":"tag-recycling","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-unicharm"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116328892356789999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}