Upcoming Diaper Shortage Means Things Are About to Get Very Messy
Well, this stinks.
Following an explosion at a chemical factory in Japan, the world may be facing a looming (and smelly) crisis: a diaper shortage. The Nippon Shokubai Company’s plant in Himeji is a leading producer of acrylic acid, a main component in disposable diapers. Over the weekend, it went boom.
The explosion killed one firefighter and injured more than 30 other emergency personnel. It was such a large explosion that at least one bystander said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the incident remains unknown.
Acrylic acid is a super-absorbent polymer that allows diapers to absorb 50 times their own weight of liquid.
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