absorbent

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By 2028, Unicharm aims to recycle the plastic and absorbent polymer from soiled diapers to make new ones as well, Tsutomu Kido, senior executive officer of Unicharm's recycling business, told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

And then, of course, there is the absorbent core—which holds what scientists refer to as the “insult.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Cleanup teams are skimming and pumping oil from the tributary and deploying absorbent booms and pads to recover oil trapped along the creek bed.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

Tucked within most of them were even shorter absorbent layers, which are meant to soak up menstrual flow.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

My palms are sweating like crazy, but the jeweled dress isn't absorbent and they skid right of if I try to dry them.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins