{"id":164601,"date":"2023-05-26T17:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T22:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-house-was-built-partly-from-recycled-diapers"},"modified":"2023-05-26T17:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T22:22:41","slug":"this-house-was-built-partly-from-recycled-diapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-house-was-built-partly-from-recycled-diapers","title":{"rendered":"This house was built partly from recycled diapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-house-was-built-partly-from-recycled-diapers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet the house that diapers built.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have designed and erected a house that has shredded, disposable diapers mixed into its concrete and mortar. A single-story home of about 36 square meters can pack nearly 2 cubic meters of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-023-32981-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">used diapers into its floors, columns and walls<\/a>, the team reports May 18 in <em>Scientific Reports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Using recycled diapers as composite building materials would not only shrink landfill waste but also could make such homes more affordable, the team says, a particular need in developing countries like Indonesia where the demand for low-cost housing far outstrips the supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the house that diapers built. Researchers have designed and erected a house that has shredded, disposable diapers mixed into its concrete and mortar. A single-story home of about 36 square meters can pack nearly 2 cubic meters of used diapers into its floors, columns and walls, the team reports May 18 in Scientific Reports. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}