Care provider Careyn’s 2025 sustainability report says residents and staff at Bernissesteyn separated more than 6,000 kilograms of incontinence waste during the year.
Shizuoka Prefecture announced an agreement with Fukuroi City on October 9, 2025 to jointly run a used-diaper resource-recovery trial. Collection was planned from hospitals, care facilities and nurseries,…
Kamakura City’s October 2024 report describes a used-diaper separation and product-development trial involving hospital and nursery waste. Kurita handled separation, while TOPPAN examined the recovered materials and possible…
Hamamatsu City announced a collection-to-product trial for used diapers on December 13, 2024. The work was intended to test steps towards recycling recovered materials into new products.
Aichi Prefecture announced a trial at Kariya Memorial Hospital on October 29, 2025. Sahashi Special Steel and Shikibo planned to test a friction-grinding and drying process for used…
Sumitomo Seika announced on June 15, 2026 that a pilot plant for recycling superabsorbent polymer recovered from used diapers had begun operating at its Himeji factory in Japan.