Knowaste’s recycling process will take portions of this absorbent waste and recycle it into plastic building materials like roofing tiles and commercial tubing. The company has plans to build five-nappy recycling plants in the UK over the next four years. Each plant will process 36,000 tons of absorbent waste yearly, which is about one-fifth of the total nappy waste stream.
Initially, the supply of diapers will be provided by childcare facilities, nursing homes and hospitals but Knowaste hopes to expand its operations to support domestic waste in the future. [Sky News]
Nathan
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 11:19 AMThis is great, instead of building a desal in Victoria we should have been looking at how to recycle nappies and other planet saving schemes.
Mark Dunn
Saturday, November 26, 2011 at 3:26 PMWell, hold your breath! that recycling technology is on its way to Australia. Relivit, with the help of Knowaste, will open its first such plant in Sydney in 2013.
Jones Roofing
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 5:33 PMWow! great idea… Recycling Material especially Diapers could be the future of Contraction industry considering that ecological problem today.