Thursday, January 18, 2018

The Diaper Recyclers-The Knowaste Story


It was a warm August morning as I was just waking up. My caregiver came in to change my morning wet diaper. She came in carrying a clean, still folded thick and bulky Rearz Safari Overnight diaper  
some Northshore Care Supply Booster pads and a bottle of baby powder


She then sat at the right side of my bed, near the center, and pulled back the covers while setting all of the stuff in her hands down on the bed next to me. 

Darlene: Hi there, time to change your diaper and get you ready for your trip to the recycling company. 

Adam: Is it that time....already? What is going to happen to me after my diaper is changed? 

Darlene: Well, I am going to take you and the diaper I take off of you, over there to that large container that has all of your wet diapers in, and I am going to have you get in and then I will toss your diaper in. You will then lay in there and wait until our janitors come and take the diapers outside to the recycling container we keep out there. The Knowaste diaper recycling company will come and take you and everything out of their bin and toss it into their truck.They will take you and all of your diapers to their plant where they will process you and all of your diapers.

Adam: What will they do to my diapers and I?

Darlene: At this point, I don't really care what they do to you and the diapers. Once I change your diaper, it will be time to bag you and a few of your diapers up in one of these big yellow trash bags, then I will tie it closed and toss the bag into the recycling bin.

Darlene unfolds the Safari Print diaper and then lays it on Adam's chest while she unfastens the tapes of the Crinclz Astronaut print diaper that Adam has wet. She pulls the front of the wet diaper down, then lays the front down and uses the plastic in the crotch to pull the Crinklz diaper out from under him. She lays the folded over diaper on his chest as she replaces the dry Safari diaper with the wet Crinklz diaper on his chest. Then Darlene Slides the dry and clean Safari Print diaper under Adam's butt then she opens the Booster pad package and takes out three thick and wide booster pads, before she begins to remove the strips from the adhesive backing. She then placed the first pad in the center, then the second with the one edge even with the edge of the padding of the front of the diaper, then, she did the same with the third pad in the back of the diaper. The second and third booster pads now overlap the first in the center. Then, Darlene grabbed a half-full bottle of baby powder and then she shook in at least a quarter of the bottle before she put the bottle back down.

Darlene: I KNOW this is a ton of baby powder, I just need your diaper to have a lot of it so that by the time it's recycling time, you'll still be NICE....and COMFY!

Then Darlene pulled the front of the diaper up and fastened the tapes. Then she grabbed the wet Crinklz diaper from Adam's chest and handed it to Adam to carry while she picked Adam up, carried him over to the Janitorial cart full of loose, unrolled, wet disposable diapers that he himself had worn. Darlene then laid Adam down inside the Janitorial trash cart on his stomach with Adam still clutching his folded over wet Crinklz diaper. As Adam waited in the cart for the next 20 minutes, he looked up at the sound boards in the plenum of the daycare ceiling and listened to all of the sounds around him. Then suddenly, a man and a woman appeared in front of the janitorial trash cart. The woman reached over and began to pull the cart towards them. As the cart began to roll, Adam got curious and sat up using his elbows to prop himself up. As he did, he saw that he was being pulled out of the daycare, down a hallway, through a metal fire door with a large picture glass window in it with metal screen between the glass panes, then outside and then into a warehouse looking room where there were several other carts full of diapers and other loads of trash.





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