gRefills break down quickly in home compost. So waste becomes resource. In your own backyard.

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Bet you've never seen a disposable diaper do this! Biodegrade, that is. gRefills break down in home composts in as little as two months, taking baby's wet diapers and turning them into a valuable soil amendment. So what happens when you crank up the heat in a commercial compost? The gRefills go back to the earth in one week. You heard right. Compostable diapers are happening. Right here.

In May 2009 Soil First, a Tasmanian owned and operated compost company, conducted a commercial compost trial for gDiapers gRefills. Soil First selected a windrow that was 7 days old, had a core temperature of 61 degrees celsius and a moisture content of approximately 40%. The wet gRefills were placed on top of the windrow, and then turned by the compost turner once, to get them to the core of the pile. When the compost turner returned one week later to inspect the rate of decomposition, the gRefills were completely gone. Not a trace was found. 

The trial concluded that gRefills break down very early in a commercial compost process. Previous testing of other brands of diapers caused major contamination issues, as the plastics in them did not break down. gRefills were already known to be compostable diapers in a home compost, and the commercial process proved that the degradation rate could be cut by several weeks by turning up the heat.

 

gRefills in your own backyard.

You don't need to create windrows or have a groovy compost turning tractor to reap the benefits of composting gRefills. Get or build a compost bin, it can be as simple or as complex as you like. Collect your yard waste, your fruit and veggie scraps from the kitchen, your coffee grounds and your baby's wet gRefills and watch how they work together to break down into useful and valuable compost. Check out the diaper therapy blog for more tips on getting started with backyard composting.