Disposable diapers are a massive environmental offender. Roughly 300,000 of them are sent to landfills or incinerated every minute, according to the World Economic Forum, and they take hundreds of ...

Disposable diapers are a huge source of global waste, largely because they're difficult to recycle. A new process, however, could salvage the "superabsorber" polymer utilized in the liners of those ...

Unicharm Corporation (TOKYO: 8113) has announced the development of an innovative new technology, the "Dry Washing Method," as part of its "RefF (Recycle for the Future)" disposable diaper recycling ...

Once thrown away, disposable diapers and sanitary pads can take hundreds of years to decompose, because they contain plastics and other synthetic polymers. But now, researchers are replacing these ...

For decades, most disposable diaper brands have used plastic materials in their liners and outer layers — that includes Huggies, Pampers, Hello Bello and even Millie Moon. Kudos’ founders realized ...

Finding low-cost, sustainable building materials is important for the environment and providing access to affordable housing. Researchers have created a composite building material by replacing sand ...