Adapted extracts from publicity material sent to the Natural Death Centre.
In Zimbabwe the consumption of primary wood is outstripping demand and stripping the land. Down to Earth Eco-Coffins, a Zimbabwean company, has designed and developed a range of inexpensive but attractive and colourful Eco Coffins, intended both for export and for use within Zimbabwe. The coffins are made from a rigid board product which is 100 per cent scrap paper, with a minimal primary wood content less than one tenth that used in wooden coffins - this wood is gum tree (Siligna) grown by rural co-operatives. No chemical glues are used.
The export coffins are sold in kit form and cost US$25.27 each (for order of 50 to 100 coffins). Within Zimbabwe, rural communities can be supplied with coffins in kit form, with co-operative members assembling them for sale, and with the profits used for a tree planting programme.
Robert Whyte, Down to Earth Eco-Coffins, PO Box 1468, Avondale, Harare (tel 263 4 794236; fax 263 4 749234).
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