Data from the World Economic Forum shows that in 2023, more than 300,000 disposable diapers were sent to landfills or incinerated every minute, globally. The single-use nappies, made of plastics, wood ...

Hiro Technologies Co-Founder Miki Agrawal poses with a diaper and a pouch full of plastic-eating fungi at her company’s laboratory, in Austin AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -Could baby poop and fungi work ...

AUSTIN, Texas – Could baby poop and fungi work together to tackle landfill waste? That is the idea behind a new product launched by a start-up based in Austin, Texas, that sells disposable diapers ...

Courtesy of Siswanti Zuraida, Bart Dewancker, and Romi Bramantyo Margono It was an idea born of equal parts inspiration and desperation. Indonesia, facing a steadily rising urban population and high ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A dirty diaper could be the secret ingredient to helping answer an environmental question: how do we clean up all of our plastic waste? HIRO Technologies hopes these diapers could help ...

An estimated 18 billion disposable diapers are thrown in landfills each year, taking as many as 500 years to decompose. Disposable diapers make up the third largest source of solid waste in landfills, ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DYPER™, the responsible diapering company, has become the first diapering company in the world to successfully “char” a diaper with its BYOCHAR™ technology. With ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -Could baby poop and fungi work together to tackle landfill waste? That’s the idea behind a new product launched by an Austin, Texas-based startup that sells disposable diapers ...

NORWELL, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A day care company and a waste management facility in Massachusetts have teamed up to turn dirty diapers into electricity. Diapers are one of the biggest sources of U.S.

The disposable type may be the diaper of choice for most parents, but it's no secret that their single-use nature can generate a lot of waste, especially when you consider a child may go through more ...