{"id":63506,"date":"2024-04-22T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/japan-recycled-nappies-world-first-horizontal-unicharm-kagoshima"},"modified":"2024-04-22T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:08:18","slug":"horizontally-recycled-nappies-go-on-sale-in-japan-in-world-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63506","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Horizontally\u2019 recycled nappies go on sale in Japan in world first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Product made from used nappies will go on sale in shopping centres after sterilisation, bleaching, and deodorising <\/p>\n<p>A company in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> has started selling the world\u2019s first \u201chorizontally\u201d recycled nappies, as the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/09\/elon-musk-tweet-sparks-debate-in-japan-on-falling-birthrate\">ageing society<\/a> undergoes a shift in demand for children\u2019s diapers to those for older adults.<\/p>\n<p>Unicharm, based in the south-western prefecture of Kagoshima, put the adult and baby nappies on sale this month in shopping centres in Kyushu \u2013 one of Japan\u2019s four main islands \u2013 in collaboration with local governments, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/japan-recycled-nappies-world-first-horizontal-unicharm-kagoshima\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Product made from used nappies will go on sale in shopping centres after sterilisation, bleaching, and deodorising A company in Japan has started selling the world\u2019s first \u201chorizontally\u201d recycled nappies, as the country\u2019s ageing society undergoes a shi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63507,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63506\/revisions\/63507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}