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Parents are mailing away their kids’ dirty diapers to save the planet

Parents are putting their babies’ dirty diapers in the mailbox — for the sake of the environment.   Subscription-based baby-care company Dyper, which introduced their biodegrade bamboo diaper in 2018, has partnered with waste-management company TerraCycle to launch ReDyper, a mail-in diaper-composting service for all Dyper customers.   Just store your baby’s soiled Dyper diapers until there’s enough to fill up the provided box — specially designed per the United Nations’ hazmat standards — then download and print a mailing label from their website and ship your crap, so to speak, to TerraCycle. Then, it’s off to various centralized composting facilities across the country.   It may sound like nasty business, but the alternative is much worse, says Dyper president Bruce Miller, who called diaper waste statistics “staggering,” as more than 20 billion diapers fill landfills in the US each year.   “I think this has been the Holy Grail for a lot of disposable diaper companies,” Miller tells The Post. “But no one at this point really has closed the loop” by commercializing the diaper-composting process.   Made primarily from bamboo and free of chlorine, perfumes, phthalates, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other unsustainable or potentially harmful materials, Dyper’s content manager Taylor Shearer tells The Post their diapers are “already technically compostable” — at least, for the customers who can manage the time- and space-consuming chore, or have access to a local composting facility. Their website also advises homesteaders to avoid composting diapers filled with fecal matter, to prevent the spread of bacteria and other pathogens.   Shearer explains that the new service is aimed at “customers that live in the cities [and] large apartment buildings that don’t have that access,” as well as those who hope to process baby’s poo, too.   Once TerraCycle receives the ReDyper box, the waste is routed to various regional composting operations, though Miller assures it will never be used to fertilize the food on your plate.   “The diapers [go] toward highway infrastructure vegetation,” he says. “If you see wildflowers growing in the median … that’s really where a majority of our composted product goes.”   Dyper’s diaper-delivery subscription starts at $68 per month and promises enough diapers depending on your baby’s size, between 100 and 260 pairs per week. An additional monthly cost of $39 is added for those opting in to ReDyper.   “We believe [the cost is] going to come down dramatically as we get more and more scaled,” Miller says. Still, he thinks their “passionate” customers are eager for it.   When it comes to minimizing human impact on the planet, says Miller, “people just want it to be easy.”

Parents are mailing away their kids’ dirty diapers to save the planet

Parents are putting their babies’ dirty diapers in the mailbox — for the sake of the environment.   Subscription-based baby-care company Dyper, which introduced their biodegrade bamboo diaper in 2018, has partnered with waste-management company TerraCycle to launch ReDyper, a mail-in diaper-composting service for all Dyper customers.   Just store your baby’s soiled Dyper diapers until there’s enough to fill up the provided box — specially designed per the United Nations’ hazmat standards — then download and print a mailing label from their website and ship your crap, so to speak, to TerraCycle. Then, it’s off to various centralized composting facilities across the country.   It may sound like nasty business, but the alternative is much worse, says Dyper president Bruce Miller, who called diaper waste statistics “staggering,” as more than 20 billion diapers fill landfills in the US each year.   “I think this has been the Holy Grail for a lot of disposable diaper companies,” Miller tells The Post. “But no one at this point really has closed the loop” by commercializing the diaper-composting process.   Made primarily from bamboo and free of chlorine, perfumes, phthalates, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other unsustainable or potentially harmful materials, Dyper’s content manager Taylor Shearer tells The Post their diapers are “already technically compostable” — at least, for the customers who can manage the time- and space-consuming chore, or have access to a local composting facility. Their website also advises homesteaders to avoid composting diapers filled with fecal matter, to prevent the spread of bacteria and other pathogens.   Shearer explains that the new service is aimed at “customers that live in the cities [and] large apartment buildings that don’t have that access,” as well as those who hope to process baby’s poo, too.   Once TerraCycle receives the ReDyper box, the waste is routed to various regional composting operations, though Miller assures it will never be used to fertilize the food on your plate.   “The diapers [go] toward highway infrastructure vegetation,” he says. “If you see wildflowers growing in the median … that’s really where a majority of our composted product goes.”   Dyper’s diaper-delivery subscription starts at $68 per month and promises enough diapers depending on your baby’s size, between 100 and 260 pairs per week. An additional monthly cost of $39 is added for those opting in to ReDyper.   “We believe [the cost is] going to come down dramatically as we get more and more scaled,” Miller says. Still, he thinks their “passionate” customers are eager for it.   When it comes to minimizing human impact on the planet, says Miller, “people just want it to be easy.”  

Parents Are Mailing Away Dirty Diapers To Save The Planet

Mom and dad are placing their babies’ filthy diapers in the mailbox — for the sake of the atmosphere.   Subscription-based mostly toddler-care business Dyper, which introduced their biodegrade bamboo diaper in 2018, has partnered with waste-administration business TerraCycle to launch ReDyper, a mail-in diaper-composting provider for all Dyper prospects.   Just shop your baby’s dirty Dyper diapers till there’s adequate to fill up the offered box — specifically created for each the United Nations’ hazmat criteria — then obtain and print a mailing label from their website and ship your crap, so to speak, to TerraCycle. Then, it’s off to a variety of centralized composting facilities across the region.   It might audio like unpleasant company, but the alternative is much worse, says Dyper president Bruce Miller, who termed diaper squander figures “staggering,” as a lot more than 20 billion diapers fill landfills in the US each and every 12 months.   “I believe this has been the Holy Grail for a ton of disposable diaper providers,” Miller tells The Article. “But no 1 at this position really has shut the loop” by commercializing the diaper-composting procedure.   Created principally from bamboo and free of charge of chlorine, perfumes, phthalates, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other unsustainable or likely dangerous components, Dyper’s content supervisor Taylor Shearer tells The Article their diapers are “already technically compostable” — at the very least, for the shoppers who can regulate the time- and place-consuming chore, or have obtain to a nearby composting facility. Their web-site also advises homesteaders to prevent composting diapers loaded with fecal matter, to prevent the spread of micro organism and other pathogens.   Shearer describes that the new service is aimed at “customers that stay in the towns [and] huge apartment properties that don’t have that accessibility,” as effectively as all those who hope to course of action baby’s poo, also.   Once TerraCycle receives the ReDyper box, the waste is routed to many regional composting functions, although Miller assures it will never ever be made use of to fertilize the food stuff on your plate.   “The diapers [go] toward highway infrastructure vegetation,” he suggests. “If you see wildflowers expanding in the median … which is definitely exactly where a vast majority of our composted product or service goes.”   Dyper’s diaper-shipping subscription begins at $68 for each thirty day period and guarantees adequate diapers relying on your baby’s size, concerning 100 and 260 pairs for every 7 days. An further regular cost of $39 is included for all those opting in to ReDyper.   “We consider [the cost is] going to arrive down considerably as we get extra and extra scaled,” Miller suggests. However, he thinks their “passionate” customers are keen for it.   When it will come to minimizing human impact on the earth, suggests Miller, “people just want it to be effortless.”

WE TRIED DYPER'S ECO-FRIENDLY DIAPER SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE—IS IT WORTH IT?

You don't have to be a parent to know that babies and toddlers go through a lot of diapers until they're successfully potty-trained.   While some parents opt for reusable cloth diapers that need to be washed, many—my family included—rely on single-use, disposable diapers that get tossed into the trash. It adds up to a serious environmental cost. According to the EPA, single-use diapers add 4.2 million tons of waste to landfills annually.   Enter subscription service Dyper to the rescue. Dyper claims its diapers are biodegradable and compostable, sources its materials from responsible sources, and avoids chemicals, prints, or scents to produce its single-use diapers. For many working families and caregivers, the convenience factor of disposable diapers is non-negotiable. Dyper wants to provide the ease of disposable diapers without the environmental cost.   To test out whether these Earth-friendly disposable diapers could keep my toddler dry and happy, my family tried Dyper for almost a month. Here's how it went.     One of the major differences between Dyper and other eco-conscious brands is that these diapers can be composted. The company has step-by-step instructions to walk you through the at-home composting process. And if it's a poopy diaper, forget about it. Per Dyper, wet diapers free of fecal matter are best for composting.   However, composting at home seems like a lot of work for new parents and other caregivers who are pitching in to help. But, recently, the company recently announced a partnership with TerraCycle to launch the ReDyper composting program.   So, how does it work? When you subscribe to Dyper, you can opt-in (or opt-out) of Dyper's composting program. ReDyper subscribers will receive a "specially designed box" to place soiled diapers in. When the box is full, a prepaid mailing label can be downloaded from the Dyper Composting Program page on the TerraCycle website.   This really makes it easy for parents who want to compost diapers but don't have the backyard space or setup to make it happen, but the program is not included with the $68 box of diapers and costs an additional $39 per month. At the time of publication, Dyper is offering free composting with a monthly Dyper subscription. This offer was available at the time of publication, however the promotion is only valid for a limited time.   Additionally, when you buy a box of Dyper's, the company, in turn, uses that money to purchase carbon offsets. You can think of carbon offsets like a trade between a company and the environment. Dyper purchases carbon offsets, which are used to fund environmentally-friendly projects like reforestation efforts.     One thing to know upfront is that Dyper subscriptions cost $68 no matter what size you order or quantity you purchase. Shipping is free, however, tax will be added to the total cost and is calculated based on where you live. Orders can be placed on the Dyper website or using the Dyper app, available for download on iOS and Android devices. The diapers ship within two to three days of placing an order and takes less than a week for the first box to arrive at your door.   So, what size should you order? The company offers five different diaper sizes. The number of diapers included in each box is based on how much your child weighs:  
  • Newborn (10 pounds & under): 260 diapers
  • Small (6-16 pounds): 220 diapers
  • Medium (13-22 pounds): 180 diapers
  • Large (20-31 pounds): 140 diapers
  • Extra Large (28 pounds and up): 100 diapers
  I ordered the large size for my 22-month-old son. At just 23 pounds, he’s pretty petite and lean for his age. The sizing is pretty accurate, although the diapers’ elastic bands were just ever so loose around his slender thighs. I probably could’ve sized down to the medium and it would’ve fit him fine but I made sure to fasten the diapers on the tightest setting each time to avoid any messes.   The service is set up so that you receive a new box every four weeks but you can control the delivery frequency ranging from every two weeks up to 12 weeks. If you run out of diapers before your next delivery, you take advantage of Dyper’s SOS service, where you can request an emergency delivery to arrive at your front door in as little as four hours.   However, at the time of publication, this service is not available everywhere and can only be used twice per year, per subscription. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time.     The diapers are bamboo-based and are made without chemicals like chlorine, latex, alcohol, perfumes, PVC, lotions, TBT (tributyltin), or phthalates. You've probably heard some of these chemical buzzwords before—but should you be worried about them? Ingredients like phthalates have been linked to asthma, while other studies show that the materials in most of today's disposable diapers are "safe" and "extensively tested.”   But the diaper aisle is full of choices and the decision can be deeply personal for parents and caregivers. However, the appeal of chemical-free and planet-friendly diapers is a growing trend for consumers.   According to Dyper, the diapers are made with perforated viscose from bamboo that is "odor resistant" and "more breathable" than other diaper materials. And then there's the eco-friendly aspect of bamboo—it's sustainable and renewable. Even the clear bags the diapers are packaged in are made with biodegradable materials.   Since Dyper doesn’t use ink to make its diapers, there aren’t any fun and colorful prints to choose from. Selfishly, the prints and designs make diaper time more fun for me and I’d love to see them incorporated into future diapers. But if I’m being real, the way a diaper looks is more for me than my son, anyway.     My experience with Dyper was pretty uneventful—there were no major blowouts and they didn’t cause my son any diaper rash or cause any skin irritations. However, one of the first things I noticed about Dyper was the composure of the diaper itself. It’s much fluffier and fuller than similar diaper options like Pampers Pure and Honest, which are fairly slim and thin yet still absorbent. The diaper is soft to the touch and feels almost like a plush cloth rag.   Dyper claims to use a "micro perforation process" which circulates fresh air through the diapers to combat too much moisture. While they say the diaper absorbs nearly two times as much as traditional big brand diapers, I didn't personally find this to be the case.   Throughout the day, I noticed my son’s diaper filled up pretty quickly and felt bulkier than I would’ve expected—more so than it does when using our go-to brand of diapers from Target’s Cloud Island line.   Working from home, I probably change my son’s diaper more frequently than I probably should, but I felt like I had no choice when using Dyper’s bamboo diapers. While they fit fairly well and looked good, the diapers took on a lot of moisture—and fast. (Just like most other diapers, they are white and have a wetness indicator strip that turns from yellow to blue when the diaper is soiled.)     We went through a box of 140 large-sized diapers in about 20 days. That works out to roughly seven diapers a day, not including the overnight diaper we put on him before bedtime. I’m no math whiz, but the box works out to about $0.50 per diaper. Since I don’t have the time or setup to compost these diapers, they aren’t something I will likely repurchase. While I love the idea of taking part in Dyper's composting program, my bank account is less enthusiastic about spending $107 on diapers each month.   As I mentioned, Target's Cloud Island brand is my go-to for diapers these days. Free of chlorine, latex, lotion, and fragrance, a box of 78 diapers in size 4 only runs me $21.99 before my 5% Target RedCard discount and they’re available for next-day delivery as a part of Target’s Restock program.     It’s hard for me to know whether my kid just urinates a lot or the diapers aren’t as absorbent as I hoped, but the Dyper subscription service is a bit too pricey for my pocketbook based on how quickly my almost 2-year-old went through a box of them. These days, you’ve got more options for eco-friendly and (mostly) chemical-free diapers from companies like Honest and Seventh Generation. Even other brands like Pampers have pulled the trigger on certain ingredients like latex, parabens, PVC, BPA, and other chemicals from its diapers.   However, none of those brands makes a compostable diaper and that’s what sets Dyper apart for the rest. If you’re looking for a diaper that’s better for the environment than most other options—and you’re going to commit to properly composting them in your own backyard or via Dyper's composting program—then Dyper just might be the way to go.

Diaper delivery company Dyper will take back its nappies after use and compost them

Dyper wants you to send in your poop, or more precisely, your baby’s poop. For those who subscribe to its diaper delivery service, Dyper will take back its compostable diapers once the baby’s done their business and handle the composting in its ReDyper program, a partnership with waste management company TerraCycle.  

Subscribers get ReDyper hazmat shipping boxes and labels that go to TerraCycle, which sends them to a partner industrial composting facility. While it’s not the only diaper delivery service, Dyper says its product is the first compostable diaper ever created. But it’s up to the user to make sure the diapers actually get composted and not sent to a landfill (where they won’t biodegrade) with other garbage.

 

subscription to Dyper, which delivers between 100 and 260 diapers a week depending on baby’s size, costs $68 per month. ReDyper will cost an additional $39 per month. The company says its diapers are made with viscose fibers from responsibly sourced bamboo that subscribers can self-compost at commercial facilities.

 

Dyper says it purchases carbon offsets on customers’ behalf from Cool Effect for each delivery. Dyper CEO Sergio Radovcic said in an email to The Verge that the company has expansion plans “to limit the further impact of shipping the diapers to and from our composting locations,” adding that “our biggest goal is to divert diapers from being tossed into the landfill.”

Diaper delivery company Dyper will take back its nappies after use and compost them

Dyper wants you to send in your poop — or more precisely, your baby’s poop. For those who subscribe to its diaper delivery service, Dyper will take back its compostable diapers once the baby’s done their business and handle the composting in its ReDyper program, a partnership with waste management company TerraCycle.  

Subscribers get ReDyper hazmat shipping boxes and labels that go to TerraCycle, which sends them to a partner industrial composting facility. While it’s not the only diaper delivery service, Dyper says its product is the first compostable diaper ever created. But it’s up to the user to make sure the diapers actually get composted and not sent to a landfill (where they won’t biodegrade) with other garbage.

 

subscription to Dyper — which delivers between 100 and 260 diapers a week depending on baby’s size— costs $68 per month. ReDyper will cost an additional $39 per month. The company says its diapers are made “with viscose fibers from responsibly sourced bamboo” that subscribers can self-compost at commercial facilities.

 

Dyper says it purchases carbon offsets on customers’ behalf from Cool Effect for each delivery. Dyper CEO Sergio Radovcic said in an email to The Verge that the company has expansion plans “to limit the further impact of shipping the diapers to and from our composting locations,” adding that “our biggest goal is to divert diapers from being tossed into the landfill.”

Diaper delivery company Dyper will take back its nappies after use and compost them

Dyper wants you to send in your poop — or more precisely, your baby’s poop. For those who subscribe to its diaper delivery service, Dyper will take back its compostable diapers once the baby’s done their business and handle the composting in its ReDyper program, a partnership with waste management company TerraCycle.  

Subscribers get ReDyper hazmat shipping boxes and labels that go to TerraCycle, which sends them to a partner industrial composting facility. While it’s not the only diaper delivery service, Dyper says its product is the first compostable diaper ever created. But it’s up to the user to make sure the diapers actually get composted and not sent to a landfill (where they won’t biodegrade) with other garbage.

 

subscription to Dyper — which delivers between 100 and 260 diapers a week depending on baby’s size— costs $68 per month. ReDyper will cost an additional $39 per month. The company says its diapers are made “with viscose fibers from responsibly sourced bamboo” that subscribers can self-compost at commercial facilities.

 

Dyper says it purchases carbon offsets on customers’ behalf from Cool Effect for each delivery. Dyper CEO Sergio Radovcic said in an email to The Verge that the company has expansion plans “to limit the further impact of shipping the diapers to and from our composting locations,” adding that “our biggest goal is to divert diapers from being tossed into the landfill.”

Compost your baby’s diapers through this subscription service

Environmentally conscious parents can choose sustainable baby wipes and forego plastic toys for more eco-friendly alternatives, but there’s still the conundrum of what to do with the deluge of diapers their kids will go through. Reusable cloth diapers are labor intensive, and only a few cities have services to which parents can outsource all that washing.   Disposable diapers, though a blessing for convenience, have been a blight on the environment; in the United States alone, an average of 20 billion disposable diapers are tossed into the trash annually, and they take about 500 years to decompose. Now parents have another option: shipping their baby’s dirty diapers off to be composted—as long as they get them from diaper subscription company Dyper.       Dyper has teamed up with TerraCycle to launch its ReDyper program, through which subscribers can send back their soiled Dyper diapers in provided bags and specially designed boxes that meet United Nations Haz Mat shipping standards. When the box is full, parents can download a prepaid shipping label from the TerraCycle website, ship it away, and the diapers will end up at TerraCycle distribution centers, then industrial composting facilities that TerraCycle partners with, and ultimately, be turned into compost used for things like vegetation on highway medians.       The ReDyper program is a new addition to Dyper’s subscription model, which first launched in 2018 and offers at-home delivery of bamboo diapers without chlorine, latex, alcohol, perfumes, PVC, lotions, and the chemicals tributyltin, or phthalates. They’re also free of ink, as they don’t have any patterns printed on them. Disposable diapers often contain a few of those ingredients, whether in chlorine-bleached cores, infused lotions, or fasteners which have phthalates to add flexibility to the plastic—and though they’re generally seen as safe for babies, they have harmful environmental impacts. Other companies do offer bamboo diapers that are billed as more eco-friendly than disposables with all those added elements, but if those diapers still end up in landfills, they won’t decompose.   Since its start, Dyper has said its bamboo diapers can be composted at home—as long as they don’t contain any fecal matter, and you don’t use that compost for food gardens—but Taylor Shearer, content manager at Dyper, admits that’s not feasible for all parents. “We talked to many moms that wish that they had that opportunity to compost, because they’re living in New York City in an apartment on the 24th floor and they have no option to do that,” she says. This ReDyper program, which has been in the works for nine months, fills that gap—and now allows all soiled Dyper diapers to be composted—in a way that’s hopefully easy enough to get people on board.     “It’s got to be super convenient. It’s got to be, frankly, as close to convenient as possible relative to throwing it out,” says TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky. This is a brand-new venture for TerraCycle; the private recycling company has never had a national platform for handling diapers, though it does run a small recycling program in Amsterdam with Pampers. Still, U.S.-wide diaper waste is different: Here it totals 3.5 million tons each year, and Szaky says there’s no diaper recycling program available in the country. TerraCycle also hasn’t ever composted diapers before, but Szaky says he’s confident the current composting infrastructure can handle this demand, and that it will only compost Dyper diapers for nonfood supply areas.   In terms of how convenient it is to set aside dirty diapers until enough are ready to be shipped, Szaky says parents are already doing this. A parent himself, he’d simply fill a Diaper Genie until he was ready to take the trash out. “And, you know, I felt really bad when I was using disposable diapers, all the waste that’s produced,” he adds. “And then we also tried cotton diapers, and that’s a huge amount of work . . . This [ReDyper program] is sort of one that helps solve all those pieces.”     According to most experts and anecdotal accounts, a baby can go through 2,500 to 3,000 diapers in their first year. That’s a lot of waste, and if parents are using Dyper—whether to only get diapers sent to them or to additionally send them back to be composted—it’s also a lot of shipping. Shearer says the company addresses that environmental concern by working with carbon offset nonprofit Cool Effect; the amount offset is noted for each delivery, and subscribers receive offset certificates from Cool Effect after each delivery via email.   The ReDyper program costs $39, on top of the regular Dyper subscription, which is $68 for a four-week supply. The amount of diapers you receive in each supply depends on the size you’re ordering—newborn diapers come 260 at a time, extra-large diapers for children who weigh more than 28 pounds come 100 at a time—though subscribers can request an emergency delivery if they run out, which is free of charge but can only be done a limited number of times. This may be a bit more expensive than other options (a 136 pack of Pampers 16-28 pound diapers costs around $40 at Target), but Bruce Miller, president of Dyper, says the value is obvious for their customers.     “The value isn’t just calculated on the specific cost. We are not the least expensive and we’re not the most expensive, but we feel when we take this whole approach of using safe ingredients such as bamboo and nontoxic chemicals, and we don’t print on our diapers and our boxes, and offsetting, and trying to compost and getting people to compost, we feel the value is very real,” he says.   On average, Dyper currently sees about 15,000 subscribers ordering new subscriptions or refilling subscriptions every four weeks, and Miller says the company is growing about 10% month-over-month. “We feel that as long as we’re able to keep it simplified and explain our overall value proposition, which does include the environment and what we’re trying to do, we very rarely get price pushback.”   This is the first national diaper composting program in the U.S., but both Dyper and TerraCycle hope others in the industry follow their lead. “Diapers are an unavoidable thing . . . and they are a phenomenal waste stream, so I think it’s important for parents to acknowledge that there’s an issue,” Szaky says. “And then the best way to take responsibility is to vote for organizations, and you vote by supporting these organizations, by purchasing their products that are helping bring out solutions. And then the hope is that as the market sees that happened, that other companies in the space start reacting and bring out other solutions, and then effectively rise the tide so that hopefully 20 years from now, every diaper has some form of recyclability, compostability, or reusability.”

New Subscription Service Allows You To Compost Your Baby’s Diapers (And Save The Planet)

If we stop and think about the number of diapers that new parents go through, we can just imagine the toll that that amount of waste takes on the environment. According to experts, a baby can go through 2,500 to 3,000 diapers in their first year alone. In the United States, an estimated 20 billion disposable diapers are thrown away annually, and they take about 500 years to decompose.   Although reusable cloth diapers are an option, the amount of time and effort it takes to wash dirty diapers is incredible and few cities offer services that wash cloth diapers. Luckily, a new option is available for eco-conscious and time-strapped parents. Dyper, a diaper subscription company, composts dirty diapers.   Working with TerraCycle, Dyper had launched its ReDyper program, which allows subscribers to return their dirty Dyper diapers in special bags and boxes that adhere to United Nations HazMat shipping standards. After the box is full, parents can print a prepaid shipping label from the TerraCycle website and send their diapers to the TerraCycle distribution centers, which will deliver them to industrial composting facilities that turn the diapers into compost used for such things as vegetation on highway medians.     The ReDyper program has just been added to Dyper’s subscription model, which was first launched in 2018. The subscription delivers bamboo diapers that unlike plastic diapers use no ink and contain no chlorine, latex, alcohol, perfumes, PVC, lotions, tributyltin, or phthalates. Although other companies sell bamboo diapers, if they are not composted, they’ll simply end up in a landfill, where they won’t decompose.   The ReDyper program allows all soiled Dyper diapers to be composted. “It’s got to be super convenient. It’s got to be, frankly, as close to convenient as possible relative to throwing it out,” says TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky.   TerraCycle, a private recycling company, used to run a small recycling program in Amsterdam with Pampers. Their new venture with Dyper gives them a national platform in the U.S., where diaper waste totals 3.5 million tons per year. Meanwhile, there are no other diaper recycling programs available anywhere in the country.       As for the carbon footprint of receiving and sending the diapers, Dyper works with carbon offset nonprofit Cool Effect, which offsets the amount of each delivery, giving subscribers offset certificates from Cool Effect after each delivery via email. The ReDyper program costs $39, along with the regular Dyper subscription, which is $68 for a four-week supply of diapers, yet Bruce Miller, president of Dyper, believes the expense is justified.   “The value isn’t just calculated on the specific cost. We are not the least expensive and we’re not the most expensive, but we feel when we take this whole approach of using safe ingredients such as bamboo and nontoxic chemicals, and we don’t print on our diapers and our boxes, and offsetting, and trying to compost and getting people to compost, we feel the value is very real,” he says.

Schwarzkopf reforça compromisso com a economia circular

A Schwarzkopf, marca de hair care da Henkel, fez uma parceria com a empresa de gerenciamento de reciclagem TerraCycle para lançar uma gama de programas de reciclagem para seus produtos. Os clientes podem devolver frascos, tampas, garrafas, tubos, bombas e produtos em aerossol da Schwarzkopf por meio das iniciativas de reciclagem: Schwarzkopf Aerosols, Schwarzkopf Hair Coloration e Schwarzkopf.