The white grains that remain are pure plastic granulate with which you can make new things. In our country, around 20 million disposable diapers fly in the residual waste bag every year. The combustion of it causes almost 8 million tonnes of CO2 in the air.
Jan Geeraert, director of IVBO: “WOOSH is that Giveback system started from diapers. We immediately said that we as a pioneer want to cooperate in helping to help the valuable flows that are still used in used waste diapers, to get them out of it and something useful to do with it. “
Nothing happens with the organic waste yet, but in the future it could serve as a fuel for a biocentrale.
Minou Esquenet is chairman at IVBO: “As an organization, and IVBO has prefinanced part of the machine. We have put half a million euros in it to support the startup in the context of innovation.”
The focus is on daycare centers, but private individuals can also order the diapers.