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  • Metal body parts recycled after cremation

    04/12/2013 4:01:03 AM PDT · by markomalley · 14 replies
    Daily Telegraph ^ | April 12, 2013 | Hayley Dixon
    Metal body parts are being recycled into road signs, lamp posts, car parts and aircraft engines after people are cremated. The project has raised almost £1million for charity since it began in Britain in 2004. Steel hips, plates and screws from legs and skulls are collected after a person is cremated and sent off for recycling. Even metal plates from false teeth and tiny fragments from fillings can be recovered and re-used, together with metal fittings on coffins. High value metals which survive the 1000-degree cremation are then sold for use in the automobile and aeronautical industries. They include cobalt...