Eco-Coffins in Japan

July 9, 2008 / 4 Comments

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Japan is not always first out of the gate. Okay, not usually first out of the gate but they do know how to take an idea and run with it, make it better and make it more expensive, too.

Enter the eco-coffin and if you need 5 reasons to buy an eco-coffin in Hong Kong … and anywhere else let me know. You may also be interested in eco-funerals if they are green enough for you.

Japan is just now making the idea her own. Tri-Wall K. K. is challenging funeral convention in Japan and asking customers to make a final statement, to think outside the box. Instead of expensive wooden boxes, how about one made from cardboard…an ecoffin. Good word, eh?

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The ecoffin uses half the wood of a conventional coffin and requires half the energy for combustion.

What’s more, the company plants ten red pine trees in Mongolia for each coffin that is used in a carbon offset mechanism.

99% of Japanese are cremated. Japanese laws do not require crematoriums to report levels of CO2 emissions either. And everyone in Japan is going to die sooner or later.

Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has given guidelines to crematoriums requiring them to improve their incinerators and reduce emissions.

The part I don’t get is Tri-Wall’s ecoffin is more costly than a regular pine box. Um, why not just use a refrigerator box? Seriously. And what about recycling the boxes? I guess I can’t see that happening.

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4 Responses

  • wovenwickercoffins / July 13, 2008 at 2:14 am

    We are specialize in woven wicker caskets and bamboo caskets.Our woven caskets support the weight attains 350 pounds,all of them are environmental protection.We have about ten kinds of different styles, Sure,we can make according to the clients’design or samples.

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    More wicker willow coffins Or biodegradable casket.

  • Ecocaskets / November 20, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    We are specialize in environment friendly woven wicker wiloow coffins,bamboo coffins,seagrass coffin,corn skin coffins or biodegradable casket.Our coffins support the weight attains 300KG,all of them are environmental protection.We have about ten kinds of different styles,and our coffins are protected by a Patent of the China republic.And we have experience of export the America and Europe market already.

  • Sulis Budi Santoso, Mr / October 13, 2010 at 7:40 am

    Dear Sir,

    We are company from solo – indonesia, we want to offer you my wicker casket products. please look at our cataloque in my facebook at sinar.furniture@yahoo.com

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  • Morke Bjerg / October 16, 2010 at 2:27 am

    They are all far behind. See what they have invented in Denmark at http://www.dancof.com or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W79M7fEtQnI
    They have the really smart solution for coffins / caskets

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