There are now diapers that are made to be eaten……….. by fungi.
Dump trucks drop loads of diapers into landfills, over 18 billion per year just in the United States. Each plastic diaper will take 500 years to degrade, leaching chemicals into the ground.
But, Hiro diapers are made to be eaten by fungi…….. you know, like mushrooms and the stuff that turns humans into zombies in The Last Of Us, completely natural stuff. Attached to each diaper is a packet of fungi that activates when wet. Then it goes to town on the plastic like a baby nom-nomming a pacifier. They break up the carbon bonds in the plastic and turns the diapers into nutrient rich soil. Meaning that someday, the vegetables on your plate may have grown out of an old diaper. So, when you really look at it, these diapers will ultimately be eaten by us. It’s the circle of life.
The company making the diapers plans to expand into other ways to break down all sorts of plastic garbage throughout the world.