What can you do with an amputated limb?
BBC News has a piece today, reporting the case of a man who wanted to donate his amputated leg then chose to hold a guess-the-weight competition last month after his […]
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Disposal of the dead
Disposal of the dead is always a problem. In many countries, space for burial it at a premium especially for city dwellers. The rituals , surrounding death, proscribed by religion […]
Waste from funeral parlours
The volume of waste from funeral parlours will be considerable. Most of this will be liquid waste comprising blood and other body fluids plus embalming fluids collected during what is […]
Cremation – who gets the gold?
Gold prices are riding high. With an eye, if not a tooth, on profit nine South Koreans have been arrested for stealing, selling and buying melted gold teeth from cremation […]
Bios-urn
A new and highly innovative product from Martin Azua offers a green twist to cremation. Despite the increasing popularity of green funerals, cremation is still the primary route for disposal of […]
Cremator heat capture scheme approved
Plans to use energy from a crematorium to heat a council swimming pool have been approved. Last updated: Thursday, October 11, 2018
8 months for pet crematorium scam
“A woman who ran a pet crematorium in Derbyshire has been jailed for eight months for dumping the bodies of her customers’ pets in a field. Last updated: Thursday, October […]
Cremation – just another tissue incinerator?
When human or animal tissues are processed through a high temperature clinical waste incinerator we have no graet concern about options for heat and energy recovery. When those tissues are […]
Crematorium supports environment
Many of us, one day, will make our way to the crematorium and not return, but on that final journey will we also be making a contribution to lowering the […]