The Star quotes AMEC vice- president Luciano Piciacchia on the process used:

• Pyrolysis, also known as thermal cracking, involves heating up the diapers up in a closed, controlled environment at temperatures of up to 600C without air, essentially breaking them down thermally.
• “Then you’re bringing it to the next level which is breaking the carbon chains down … and (in the end) they will resemble the fuels which are what we’re going to end up producing,” Piciacchia says.

The promise of pyrolysis keeps getting better.

“The other beauty of it is because this whole thing works in a closed system, there are no emissions,” Piciacchia told the Toronto Star.
The planned facility will start out converting about 30,000 diapers a year, most of which will be collected from hospitals. That is only a about 1/4 of the number that end up in the landfills of Quebec, but I have hopes that this is a huge start toward a greener, and less guilt-ridden, future.

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