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Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?

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Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« on: 26/04/2018 03:45:26 »
Can a diapered adult whom enters a diaper recycling facility, whom can accept biological wastes inside disposable diapers according to their waste acceptance policies, be recycled in their facilities and converted into some form of biological energy which could be utilized as fuel to generate electrical energy?
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #1 on: 26/04/2018 03:56:16 »
Usually there are laws that prohibit the conversion of adults (in diapers or not) into energy. :P
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #2 on: 26/04/2018 03:58:03 »
Quote from: chiralSPO on 26/04/2018 03:56:16
Usually there are laws that prohibit the conversion of adults (in diapers or not) into energy. :P
Really? I have yet to see such laws, in the federal statues and the local state-by-state statutes.
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #3 on: 26/04/2018 05:33:32 »
Quote from: trashydiaperedman on 26/04/2018 03:58:03
Really? I have yet to see such laws, in the federal statues and the local state-by-state statutes.

Since you are proposing the burning of a human body, this would effectively be governed by cremation laws: http://www.us-funerals.com/funeral-articles/understanding-cremation-laws-and-how-they-affect-arranging-a-cremation.html#.WuFVMcgvzIU. A diaper recycling facility would presumably not be built to the same standards as a crematorium nor would its employees necessarily be licensed to perform cremation.
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #4 on: 26/04/2018 05:38:49 »
Quote from: Kryptid on 26/04/2018 05:33:32
Quote from: trashydiaperedman on 26/04/2018 03:58:03
Really? I have yet to see such laws, in the federal statues and the local state-by-state statutes.

Since you are proposing the burning of a human body, this would effectively be governed by cremation laws: . A diaper recycling facility would presumably not be built to the same standards as a crematorium nor would its employees necessarily be licensed to perform cremation.


Yea BUT since a diaper recycling facility is allowed to accept "Biological waste inside disposable diapers" in it's waste acceptance polices, legally speaking, the body would not be classified as a BODY but "biological waste inside a disposable diaper!"
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #5 on: 26/04/2018 05:40:34 »
Quote from: Kryptid on 26/04/2018 05:33:32
Quote from: trashydiaperedman on 26/04/2018 03:58:03
Really? I have yet to see such laws, in the federal statues and the local state-by-state statutes.

Since you are proposing the burning of a human body, this would effectively be governed by cremation laws: A diaper recycling facility would presumably not be built to the same standards as a crematorium nor would its employees necessarily be licensed to perform cremation.
Furthermore, the egocentricity does nothing to answer the given question 
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #6 on: 26/04/2018 05:54:09 »
No.
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #7 on: 26/04/2018 17:28:19 »
Quote from: jeffreyH on 26/04/2018 05:54:09
No.

Explain why not?
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #8 on: 26/04/2018 17:57:38 »
Because there are laws about how human bodies are to be disposed of, and these laws supercede (override) most other ordinances.
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #9 on: 26/04/2018 18:02:03 »
Quote from: chiralSPO on 26/04/2018 17:57:38
Because there are laws about how human bodies are to be disposed of, and these laws supercede (override) most other ordinances.

According to THOSE same "Laws", which are very NON specific as to where a body is burned or buried, the laws in Colorado do not specifically state that a body can NOT be recycled! NOTHING in most of the laws state this! LOOK! If the law doesn't state it in specific, within the wording of the law, then what is NOT specifically stated in the wording of the law, applies to what CAN be done!
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #10 on: 26/04/2018 20:46:53 »
Quote from: trashydiaperedman on 26/04/2018 05:38:49
Yea BUT since a diaper recycling facility is allowed to accept "Biological waste inside disposable diapers" in it's waste acceptance polices, legally speaking, the body would not be classified as a BODY but "biological waste inside a disposable diaper!"

Do you have a citation for that? Please provide a link to a legal document specifying under what (if any) circumstances a human body would be reclassified as "waste".

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Furthermore, the egocentricity does nothing to answer the given question 

What egocentricity?
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #11 on: 26/04/2018 21:28:12 »
Setting aside the legal + ethical issues.
The system wouldn't be designed to cope with bones.

Unconventional "burials" are legal.
(at   least, I assume they are, given the availability)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/dissolving_the_dead
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #12 on: 26/04/2018 22:16:31 »
That's very interesting @Bored chemist I had not heard about alkaline hydrolysis.

But, if that doesn't float your funeral boat, then you could instead opt to be sonicated into oblivion (once you've been frozen solid):

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-burial-machine-that-will-freeze-your-corpse-vibrate-it-to-dust-and-turn-it-into-soil
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Re: Can a diapered adult be recycled with diapers in a recycling facility?
« Reply #13 on: 27/04/2018 06:03:52 »
Quote from: trashydiaperedman on 26/04/2018 17:28:19
Quote from: jeffreyH on 26/04/2018 05:54:09
No.

Explain why not?

Why?
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