Can you compost dirty diapers?
Can you compost dirty diapers? Step 1: What We're Going to Do Firstly, you can't compost the whole diaper. Only the filling is compostable - the rest is not biodegradable. If you try to compost the whole diaper you'll end up with a dirty sack of mush. So we're going to compost the filling and throw away the outer layers.
Are dirty diapers biodegradable?
Naturally, this means you can't compost diapers, either. That means they still have to go to landfills, where they are quoted to have about a 50-year diaper decomposition time.