R2R – repurposing to recycle is increasingly common with a range of television programmes highlighting how items such as old furniture can be rescued from the tip and given a fresh lease of life with new purpose.
The R2R movement is not only restricted to furniture but can be adopted anywhere, even in the crematorium environment.
The Superintendent & Registrar at Margam Crematorium, Clive Phillips, provides an excellent example. A family having taken away the ashes of a loved one to scatter brought the casket back to the crematorium and enquired what would happen to it – would it be destroyed? A member of staff with an interest in wildlife offered to repurpose the casket into a birdbox which would be used in the crematorium grounds. The family welcomed the suggestion.
Having sited the first, several more have been made and fixed throughout the grounds providing a new purpose for the casket and encouraging local wildlife.
Facultatieve Technologies (FT) with 145 years of experience in cremation is the international market leader in the design, construction and maintenance of cremation and filtration equipment.
