The challenge of how to dispose of municipal waste exists throughout the world. Rising populations and increasing consumer needs and desires are placing great pressures on our natural resources. The most common methods of waste disposal, land filling, incineration or composting, pose many environmental concerns and simply can’t handle the massive waste streams that are generated globally.

Every year in the UK, for example, we generate about 100 million tonnes of waste from households, commerce and industry.

Up to now nappies and/or adult incontinence products have been one of the few remaining household items that go straight to landfills, incinerator or composting facilities. Based on the fact that a child in nappies up to the age of two and half years will use 6,000 nappies, combined with a UK population set to rise by seven million by 2031, there has been an urgent need for a recycling solution.

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