SCOTTSDALE –The new Redyper platform for the collection of Dyper compostable diapers by TerraCycle was launched in February this year in the San Francisco Bay area and is now to be expanded to eleven other US cities.
Dyper diapers are made with viscose fibres from responsibly sourced, renewable bamboo and packed in clear bags made with oxo-degradable materials. With each delivery, the company purchases carbon offsets on behalf of its subscribers to help reforestation efforts.
Further, the products are free of chlorine, latex, alcohol, PVC, lotions, TBT and phthalates and are unprinted and unscented, while being soft to the touch, yet extremely durable and absorbent.
“These are the world’s first certified plastic neutral diapers,” said Dyper founder Sergio Radovcic at the recent INDA virtual Hygienix conference. “They are not 100% perfect, not made from unicorn tears, but that wasn’t the goal. Our approach was to reduce what we could and offset what we couldn’t to move things forward.”
Redyper is an optional service for users of Dyper diapers which are supplied by a subscription system – $68 per month.
TerraCycle offers a packaging and door-to-door collection service for the diapers which are then composted in third-party facilities with specific handling and separation procedures. For a limited time, Redyper opt in will be free with a monthly subscription of Dyper. Following the limited time offer, Redyper will require a monthly maintenance fee of $39.
“Successful recycling comes down simply to economics,” said Michael Waas of Terracycle. “A product needs to be valuable enough to pay for the cost of collection, which is why aluminium, PET bottles, glass etc., are already collected. The vast majority of products are too small or complex or both, and cost more to collect than you can sell them for. Diapers are a complex mixture of organic and inorganic materials, but consumers care and understand that the products have no value otherwise. Dyper subscribers want to help ensure their used diapers don’t add to the more than 20 billion diapers filling landfills in the US every year.”
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