Firm creates eco-friendly cardboard coffins
The Japan Times reports that Tri-Wall K.K., a cardboard box business, is hoping that Japanese will consumers their environmentally friendly cardboard coffins:
The firm’s “ecoffin” is indeed unique because it’s all about eco-friendliness.
Unlike conventional caskets mostly made of plywood, the firm’s coffins are made of special corrugated cardboard called Tri-Wall Pak. The cardboard is produced from trees that meet the standard of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, which is an international comprehensive program to preserve forests.
It is the same heavy-duty packaging material Tri-Wall uses in its main business of packaging and providing logistic solutions for shipping all sorts of items domestically and overseas.
Compared with plywood coffins, the Tri-Wall caskets require half the wood used to produce them and consume half the energy upon combustion. They also release one-third the amount of nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide, Tri-Wall claims.
In addition, the company sends staff to Mongolia to plant red pine trees, where forest fires have caused extensive damage. The company plants 10 trees for each coffin used in a carbon offset mechanism.
Because crematoriums incinerate the coffin as well as the deceased, as is the case of 99 percent of Japanese when they die, funeral-related emissions have become something of an environmental concern.
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