{"id":697338,"date":"2026-04-01T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/697338\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:27:23","slug":"dirty-diapers-born-again-in-japan-recycling-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/697338\/","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":3,"featured_media":697339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[23],"tags":[22170,746,151210,12578,159,291748,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-697338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-elderly","tag-environment","tag-kagoshima","tag-recycling","tag-science","tag-unicharm","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116329686380632463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}