The diaper container is a phenomenon that increasingly appears in the range of waste separation. Logical, 8 percent of our waste consists of diaper and incontinence material; If we can fish this out in the pre -separation, it is quite less.
The municipality of Emmen is a national leader with 31 above -ground diaper containers, strategically placed in child -rich neighborhoods and around daycare centers. But of course there is also another target group, because the diaper container is the place where young and old meet. Only many seniors turn out to be the walk towards diaper recycling as one Walk of Shame to be considered. Certainly if there is very large diapers on the bin, which is generally placed solitary, far from the regular glass and paper bins on the waste square. Then you can’t get the alcoholic trick out of your bottles of Vieux and gin to put the old paper and pass them over in the container next to it. That could be better. What could also be better is the diaper processing. The offer is now greater than the capacity, while you think: turning diapers again biogas and plastic: that is a classic no-brainer. Theoretically, a child can again play with plastic toys that is made of his full diaper.
But the biggest enemy of more diaper processing factories is the idea that they are bad for the environment. That current states that stimulating diaper recycling will discourage the use of washable diapers – even more dual. That those parents think, well, there are so many easy containers now, I’m not going to wash the diapers anymore. Then it will be careful for the biggest annoyance of the diaper container, namely the scent of additional placement, if it is full.
Photos Jan Dirk van der Burg