Billions of non-degrading diapers. Created by disposables: convenience for the parent, landfill for everyone.
This is a tolerated. A problem people have quietly learned to live around. The most interesting category, because tolerance means nobody has solved it well enough to be noticed. It is felt by the society, continuously, and rates 2 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It is rooted in Safety.
This friction did not arise on its own. It was created by Disposable diapers — a solution to an earlier problem that produced this one.
The market has answered it in 1 ways: Cloth diaper services and compostable diapers
Its neighbourhood
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The line back to a human being
3 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- FrictionBillions of non-degrading diapers
- SolutionDisposable diapers
- FrictionManage waste many times a day for two years
- Life phaseInfancy
- Rooted inSafety
- Rooted inScarce time
Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.