At a nursery school in Kashiba City, Nara Prefecture, an initiative to collect used children's diapers in vacuum packs so that parents do not have to take them home began on the 21st.
Due to hygiene issues in the nursery school, used diapers in nursery schools and nursery schools are sometimes taken home by parents every day, and there are voices calling for the burden on parents and the reduction of the risk of infection.
Under these circumstances, Kashiba City has introduced vacuum-packing machines at about 20 nursery centers in the city, and has begun efforts to pack and store used diapers and dispose of them as general waste.
Of these, the Mitsuwa Nursery School in Kashiba City used to store used diapers in buckets with lids, and parents who came to pick them up took them home every day, but from the 21st, they will be collected at the nursery school. The staff immediately processed the diaper with a machine and made it into a vacuum pack in about 10 seconds.
A mother in her thirties, who has a two-year-old child, said, "It was difficult to take it home and throw it away because of the smell, but I am very grateful that it can be collected at the nursery center." I did.
Naomi Uehira, chief of the Children's Division of Kashiba City, said, "Not only will it reduce the burden on parents, but by sealing it, the odor will not bother you, and it will also be a countermeasure against infections such as new corona and norovirus. I also hope that the environment will improve. "