Since 2009 Toronto have been accepting used nappies in their green bin for industrial composting.
Toronto collects diapers and other organic items and sends them to a processing facility. The resultant compost gets distributed to farmland and parks. That’s right: Canada’s babies and toddlers, for all their messes, are helping Canadian crops to grow.
The program, called “Green Bin,” also accepts animal waste, kitty litter and sanitary products.
The Toronto program provides assurances that the process is “completely sanitary and safe”:
"Through decades of experiment and experience, sanitary engineering practice has developed standards for the composting process that ensure elimination of disease-causing organisms (pathogens). The high temperatures occurring naturally during the composting process destroy pathogens. Maintaining such high temperatures for a minimum time period ensures the final finished compost is pathogen-free."
This is the answer we're looking for. This isn't new or untested technology. Toronto have done this for 10 years very successfully. Please sign and share our petition to force DEFRA to impose the same compost and recycle requirements across the UK.