There’s a company in China that makes eco-coffins, eco-friendly coffins, um…okay, you tell me what I should call them.

The company boasts caskets woven from wicket willow, bamboo, seagrass and corn skin. They have been “natural willow caskets, woven bamboo coffins, corn skin coffins, sea grass coffins or biodegradable coffins and eco-coffins, wicker urns, wicker pet coffin casket, wicker sofa, pet urns, wooden pet casket and pet bed, and children’s sizes.

Who’d a thunk there were so many ways to rest in eternity, eh?

The company has been making these coffins for some 15 years in “line with our company’s strong green beliefs.”

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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?

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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