Show Highlight- Recycle Those Diapers
Sarah and Vinnie Full Show
Audacy
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Researchers in Japan say sanitized disposable diapers can be used to help build homes!
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| 0:00.0 | What? Wake up! Thank you! With Sarah Invinny! |
| 0:03.0 | Ding ding ding ding ding! |
| 0:04.6 | Alice at 973. |
| 0:06.2 | Scientists. |
| 0:07.7 | Ah! Tests. |
| 0:14.0 | So dumb. |
| 0:15.0 | For real. |
| 0:17.0 | Researchers in Japan say, |
| 0:19.3 | sanitized disposable diapers can be incorporated into concrete and mortar, |
| 0:24.8 | which can be used to build homes. |
| 0:28.0 | Dipers can be substituted for the fine aggregates that are normally used in concrete |
| 0:33.6 | to varying degrees. |
| 0:35.4 | Mortar for structural uses like load-bearing walls and road pavement |
| 0:41.0 | could only tolerate about 10% added diaper material. |
| 0:45.1 | But mortar and concrete for non-structural uses like wall partitions |
| 0:49.8 | and low-impact floor plate pavers could tolerate being 40% diapers. |
| 0:56.0 | This is good. |
| 0:59.5 | The end. |
| 1:00.4 | Oh, I was going to say, you know, I love to hear that people, young people, |
| 1:06.3 | maybe old people, I don't know, are looking for ways to do good. |
| 1:12.8 | Because diapers are something when you have a kid, you go, |
| 1:17.2 | like I didn't think about it, I didn't know, but now that I've had two kids, I realize |
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