![]() ![]() When I was in graduate school, the big diaper conversation at the U.S. I came into the compost world after the first flush of cash for research on compostable diapers had been spent. Unfortunately, very little progress has been made in lowering the carbon impact of this journey. ![]() In other words, products that carry us from cradle to grave. This category includes feminine hygiene and incontinence products. Diapers are just part of a category of products that in theory are all excellent composting feedstocks. Disposing of these diapers amounts to the MSW equivalent of a city of 1.4 million people and emits 2.7 Metric tons (Mt) of greenhouse gasses. This requires 700 kilotons (700,000 tons) of raw materials. In the EU, 21 billion diapers are used each year at a cost of about 4.2 billion euros. A recent study from the European Union (EU) points out just how big (Mendoza et al., 2019). ![]() “So much,” they say.Ĭhlorine-free and made with organic cotton are among the more “natural” offerings on retail store shelves.ĭisposable diapers, and here I am just talking about the ones for babies, are a big deal from multiple angles. You pair that combination with parents who want to do everything to make sure the world is a better place for their newborns and what could go wrong? This is the point in the column where readers in the know start shaking their heads. ![]() The high carbon absorbent portion of the diaper married with the high nutrient and moisture content of #1 and #2 make a perfect feedstock combination. In many ways this is a concept that makes absolute sense. It was because of diapers that the US Composting Council (USCC) was formed (originally called the Solid Waste Composting Council). Back in the day (1990) Proctor & Gamble (P&G) effectively kickstarted the compost industry by creating a $20 million research fund to look at, in part, the potential for compostable diapers. Compostable diapers are where it all began. Since the time compostable diapers first became a goal of the industry, many of us have progressed from buying Pampers for our kids to Depends for ourselves. But with Hanks essaying his best Jimmy Stewart, Ryan at her most dewy-eyed, a sparkling array of supporting players and a handful of snappy dialogue scenes (the ‘I cried at “The Dirty Dozen” ’ conversation is pure gold), it’s infuriatingly irresistible.Top: Baby Hudson models a traditional disposable diaper Sally Brown Its irksome soundtrack must have been a boon to the ‘naff covers of jazz standards’ industry. It’s deeply sentimental and neither as insightful nor outright funny as Ephron and Ryan’s prior collaboration ‘When Harry Met Sally’. She’s Baltimore journalist Annie, who puts her marriage to not-quite-perfect Walter (Bill Pullman) on ice when she falls in love with the voice on the air. He plays Seattle-based Sam, the widowed architect whose sass-talking eight-year-old son (Ross Malinger) phones a radio talk show to put out a nationwide call for a new mom. A timely romantic reissue for Nora Ephron’s wildly successful 1993 romcom in which Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan play soulmates divided by geography, relationships and the fact that they don’t know each other. ![]()
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