| 摘要 |
Processes and apparatuses are provided for hygienically returning for reuse in subsequent manufacturing processes, the original liquid absorbing materials and moisture sealing materials of used single use collecting and/or absorbing products, previously worn by infants or adults to absorb urine and/or to collect feces. These human wastes are washed out from single use diapers, one use adult diapers, and other like purpose products, and directed into municipal sewer systems, or other systems ending in the treatment of sewage. These used single use collecting and/or absorbing products are heated to reach temperatures high enough to liquidize adhesives originally used, where necessary, to hold together the original liquid absorbing materials and moisture sealing materials, and then the liquidized adhesives are drained clear of these materials. Preferably, this removal of adhesives is completed during the washing of these one use products. Thereafter, the liquid absorbing materials and moisture sealing materials are separated from one another, for recycling to be used again in the manufacture of other products. Previously most of these used single use collecting and or absorbing products were tossed into the waste collection operation of municipalities, which generally ended in the filling of landfills. The human wastes, so deposited in landfills, via the annual use of eighteen billion single use diapers and other like single use products, threaten, or have affected underground water supplies and threaten, or have created other health problems.
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