If you have kids, had kids, plan on having kids or just a babysitter, there is nothing more repulsive that shitty diapers. Aside from the fact that you have to deal with a variety of forms of shit, determining what to do with it after it has been used is a major issues.
I know, I know, disposable diapers are a landfill nightmare. It doesn’t help with the smell of the landfill (though, there are many other things that contribute to that smell). Some people use cloth diapers, which I don’t get, it’s like hankies, you blow you nose in it and stuff it back in your pocket only to used it again and throw it in the laundry to clean off the boogers.
Gnarly…
Personally, we always used disposable diapers…mostly because I could give a fuck. Washing a shitty diaper just makes me want to hurl. Not to mention, running a load of laundry just for them, is costs me more than wrapping up the piss and shit pile my kid was running around with.
But before you call me a piece of excrement for not being “Green” enough, it should make you feel better to know that science has given us the ability to make the non-biodegradable bulging package of doodie into something that is useful. If there is one thing I have always believed, the Native Americans had it right, the ability to use every part of something they killed…and trust me, getting rid of a diaper is definitely something that is dead.
So what has happened is that the packages of poop are now being used in concrete. I know it sounds crazy, but according to arstechnica.com
[Scientists] determined that mortar for structural components, like load-bearing walls and public road pavement, could only tolerate a maximum of 10 percent added diaper material.
But is gets better:
But mortar and concrete for nonstructural components, like non-load-bearing wall partitions and low-impact floor pavers, could tolerate having up to 40 percent of their aggregates swapped for diaper material.
Now you don’t have to feel so bad and having your neighbors demonize you fir unloading your Diaper Genie into the trash. (which most of the time are the Karens and Chads that don’t have kids…and probably shouldn’t because they would make more of themselves). You are doing something good for society, lowing the cost of building.
So when some now gets pissed at you for dropping the poopy package in the garbage, you can tell them that the chances of their house being made of shit is more likely…let them figure that out.