{"id":1798,"date":"2023-08-03T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsd-eu.org\/?page_id=1798"},"modified":"2023-08-03T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T08:00:04","slug":"diaper-cycle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/disc-eu.org\/index.php\/diaper-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaper Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1798\" class=\"elementor elementor-1798\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4431a618 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4431a618\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-47081189\" data-id=\"47081189\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ae1ddfd elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1ae1ddfd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Diaper Cycle<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31c3dfe7 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"31c3dfe7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-51d1be1e\" data-id=\"51d1be1e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71b8e1fc elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"71b8e1fc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gsd-eu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/diaper_logo.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1b867404 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1b867404\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-285dfd38\" data-id=\"285dfd38\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e3ef821 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4e3ef821\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gsd-eu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/diaper1.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-63edbec7\" data-id=\"63edbec7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31226c5c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"31226c5c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>One child uses around 5000 diapers until they go to the toilet alone, leaving behind about 500 kg of waste, which is mainly plastic and will be landfilled or burned.<\/p><p>In Germany alone, we estimate 500,000 tons of diaper waste per year (EU: 3,750,000 tons). Valuable nutrients are being wasted, while the topsoil quality is continuously decreasing everywhere in the world, threatening the amount and quality of food that can be produced.<\/p><p>Parents look for healthy and waste-free alternatives, but eco-branded diapers are\u00a0 not compostable, and there is no recycling scheme in place for the nutrients. Many parents have turned to textile diapers, but this means oftentimes extra effort, energy and water for washing \u2013 the nutrients are still lost.<\/p><p>DYCLE has developed a system of 100% compostable diaper inlays that can be produced from mostly regional ressources. After use the inlays can be turned into hygienic and fertile soil substrate. Distribution and recollection of materials will be done at meeting places in the neighborhood, thus combining practical and social matters.<\/p><p>The system is strict on quality but flexible on how it might be implemented. Our long term goal is to make the concept available to communities around the world where it is needed.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3b92ecb5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3b92ecb5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-65775b39\" data-id=\"65775b39\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34e35daa elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"34e35daa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6244579b elementor-widget elementor-widget-eael-adv-tabs\" data-id=\"6244579b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"eael-adv-tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t        <div data-scroll-on-click=\"no\" data-scroll-speed=\"300\" id=\"eael-advance-tabs-6244579b\" class=\"eael-advance-tabs eael-tabs-horizontal eael-tab-auto-active \" data-tabid=\"6244579b\">\n            <div class=\"eael-tabs-nav \">\n                <ul class=\"eael-tab-inline-icon\" role=\"tablist\">\n                                            <li id=\"more-info\" class=\"inactive eael-tab-item-trigger eael-tab-nav-item\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"more-info-tab\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                            \n                                                                <i class=\"fas fa-info-circle\"><\/i>                                                            \n                                                            <span class=\"eael-tab-title title-after-icon\" >More Info<\/span>                            \n                                                    <\/li>\n                                            <li id=\"gallery\" class=\"inactive eael-tab-item-trigger eael-tab-nav-item\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"gallery-tab\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                            \n                                                                <i class=\"fas fa-images\"><\/i>                                                            \n                                                            <span class=\"eael-tab-title title-after-icon\" >Gallery<\/span>                            \n                                                    <\/li>\n                                            <li id=\"video\" class=\"inactive eael-tab-item-trigger eael-tab-nav-item\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"video-tab\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                            \n                                                                <i class=\"fas fa-video\"><\/i>                                                            \n                                                            <span class=\"eael-tab-title title-after-icon\" >Video<\/span>                            \n                                                    <\/li>\n                                            <li id=\"contact\" class=\"inactive eael-tab-item-trigger eael-tab-nav-item\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"contact-tab\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                            \n                                                                <i class=\"fas fa-address-card\"><\/i>                                                            \n                                                            <span class=\"eael-tab-title title-after-icon\" >Contact<\/span>                            \n                                                    <\/li>\n                    \n                                  <\/ul>\n            <\/div>\n            \n            <div class=\"eael-tabs-content\">\n\t\t        \n                    <div id=\"more-info-tab\" class=\"clearfix eael-tab-content-item inactive\" data-title-link=\"more-info-tab\">\n\t\t\t\t        <ol><li><strong>Challenge Tackled<\/strong><ul><li>Disposable diapers are a known environmental hazard comprising up to 10% of household waste. Each child produces around 500kg of diaper waste in their first two and half years of life that translates into around 1400 litres of crude oil used for plastic components according to DYCLE\u2019s estimations.<br \/>The CO2 and methane gas footprints are high. Just the diapers impact is 500kg of CO2 emissions per child, without taking into account transportation, packaging and other.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Target group, beneficiaries or clients<\/strong><ul><li>Young families.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Solution<\/strong><ul><li>DYCLE supports parents who want to take a sustainable approach by using compostable diapers, through a diapers collection system and converting diapers waste into black soil, which will subsequently be used for growing trees and plants locally. As a diaper is full of baby waste, it contains excellent nutrients in a form of phosphates and nitrogen, and it degrades into hygienic and fertile black earth.<\/li><li>Harvest from the trees could be procured for baby food and juice production, thus closing the nutrients and materials cycle of baby diapers. DYCLE estimates that a 1000kg of black earth can be produced from one year\u2019s supply of diapers from a single child.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol><ol><li><strong>Innovation<\/strong><ul><li>DYCLE is a fundamentally new way of how baby diapers are to be produced, used and recycled, or rather upcycled, when they are no longer a waste but a nutrient for plants, transformed into fertile soil.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Unique Selling Point<\/strong><ul><li>There is no completely compostable diaper on the market yet.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Impact<\/strong><ul><li>The project will create small communities of around 100 families each living in the same neighbourhood, meeting regularly at the diapers distribution\/collection points, planting fruit trees together, living their lives in a more connected way. We believe that many people\u2019s small change in everyday life can bring bigger changes afoot \u2013 strengthening communities from the bottom up.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Feasibility\/Transferability<\/strong><ul><li>DYCLE has already proved feasibility of diapers collection and soil production process with a pilot project in May 2015 with 100% compostable diaper inlays and September 2017 with our DYCLE diaper inlays. Our long term goal is to make the concept available to communities around the world where it is needed.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol>                    <\/div>\n\t\t        \n                    <div id=\"gallery-tab\" class=\"clearfix eael-tab-content-item inactive\" data-title-link=\"gallery-tab\">\n\t\t\t\t                            <\/div>\n\t\t        \n                    <div id=\"video-tab\" class=\"clearfix eael-tab-content-item inactive\" data-title-link=\"video-tab\">\n\t\t\t\t        <p><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1798-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/threec.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Dycle_video.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/threec.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Dycle_video.mp4\">https:\/\/threec.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Dycle_video.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>                    <\/div>\n\t\t        \n                    <div id=\"contact-tab\" class=\"clearfix eael-tab-content-item inactive\" data-title-link=\"contact-tab\">\n\t\t\t\t        <p>To Know more:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dycle.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/dycle.org\/en<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/4x5a8w\/this-startup-wants-to-turn-diaper-waste-into-fruit-trees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/4x5a8w\/this-startup-wants-to-turn-diaper-waste-into-fruit-trees<\/a><\/p><p>Contact Person: <br \/>Christian Schloh, christian@dycle.org<\/p>                    <\/div>\n\t\t                    <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f54ba86 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" 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leaving behind about 500 kg of waste, which is mainly plastic and will be landfilled or burned. Read more In Germany alone, we estimate 500,000 tons of diaper waste per year (EU: 3,750,000 tons). 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