STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR: Well, after a generation now, the idea of recycling things has become an everyday part of our life, but experts are still trying to figure out how to apply that concept to some products, including disposable diapers. But as CNN's Denise Dillon tells us, in our "Solution Seekers" report, now one Dutch city has found a way.</s>DENISE DILLON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's a known fact that children go through a lot of diapers. A lot of diapers. Toddlers go through about 6,000 diapers before they're 3 years old. And all those diapers are not doing the environment any good. Disposal diapers like this one take decades and decades to decompose. Now, the eastern Dutch town of Arnam has a way to recycle disposable diapers. Instead of going to landfills, dirty diapers come here to this recycling plant, where they're turned into raw materials. A Canadian recycling firm called KnoWaste Technologies is behind this. The first step is to separate the plastic and paper from the absorption material. Wash it and form it into bales of plastic and paper pulp.</s>MARK NIELSEN, KNOWASTE TECHNOLOGY: Secondly, we produce a waste stream, a sludge stream, which is being send out to composting, and our last stream is waste water, and that's being treated and it is then clean water again.</s>DILLON: This mom likes the idea of doing something for the environment.</s>SJAANE BOUWER, RECYCLING MOM: I think it's a very good idea. I mean, we waste enough as it is now. Yeah, so I do my best to put my diapers in here. Yes. I think it's a good initiative.</s>DILLON: Right now, the recycling project is still in the early stages, but should be fully up and running early next year. At that time, 40 garbage bins devoted solely to dirty diapers will be placed around the city, most outside child care centers. Denise Dillon, CNN.
Dutch City Finds a Way to Reuse Disposable Diapers