Parents with infants and toddlers in diapers looking for an alternative way to dispose of the messy nappies have a solution beginning April 22.
The Shifrah Centre for Wellness has partnered with Soiled Diapers Composting Services and a collection point will be available at their location at 118 - 3 Ave.
"We're really excited about the idea," said midwife Chelsea McLeod Schneider. The mother of eight added she understands the struggles some families can have with disposing of diapers, especially those with multiple children.
"We did an experiment over the last four months with my family and collected 10 black garbage bags of diapers," seeing that much waster in one place motivated McLeod Schneider to want to do something more intentional with the diapers.
From there, the clinic contacted Soiled Diapers Composting Services, a company working toward composting tons of soiled diapers.
Currently, Soiled Diapers Composting Services has not yet begun composting and is still in the collection stage. The plan is to purchase the composter once the collections reach one ton of diapers per day – with the optimal weight being 2.5 tons. As of this week, Mark Arishenkoff, co-founder of the composting service, said collections have reached about a ton a month of collection and is expecting, based on the rate of collection increased, to start composting in about two years.
In the meantime, the diapers are being stored in shipping containers.
To learn more about the composters, go to https://soileddiapers.ca/pages/services.
