Green Life Passage, the non-profit social enterprise, is promoting the city’s first “reusable coffin” to help the planet. Used once a day, a recyclable coffin can save 48 cubic metres of timber over a year, enough to fill one and a half standard-sized shipping containers.
This reusable coffin has a hardwood “outer coffin” for reuse and a removable “inner casket,” made of a strong honeycomb-core cardboard, in which the body is kept of cremation. This type of coffin burns more quickly, 26 minutes faster than a regular wooden one.
Although Green Life admits that Chinese people may not take to the idea due to superstition and conservatism, the group pointed out that a reusable coffin is just like a hospital bed — many people pass away on the same bed and someone else will end up using it.
Source: SCMP
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