You might be dedicated to recycling and using alternative energy and in every respect lead a blameless, eco-friendly life—_(1)_______ did you know your death is capable of generating about 300 kg of CO2 from combustion? That’s assuming you get __(2)________which is the popular thing to do. ____(3)___consider is the fact that your coffin could well be made of plywood from illegally logged trees, ___(4)_____Yukihiro Masuda, project manager of Tri-Wall KK, a Tokyo-based packaging-materials company. His team has therefore come up with a green alternative—a coffin made from ____(5)_____________produced from sustainable trees and held together with natural, starch-based glue. The 15-kg coffin has the look and feel of its wooden counterpart, supports a 200-kg body and requires half the energy for combustion ___(6)______ an ordinary coffin, resulting in just a third of the hazardous gas emissions. ___(7)__________, Tri-Wall KK plants 10 trees in a national reserve in Mongolia. Masuda calculates that in 20 years those trees ___(8)___________about 60% of the CO2 from a typical funeral. Not all Japanese __(9)_______ with a cardboard coffin. Midori Kotani of the Daiichi Life Research Institute says that people “will most likely go for (traditional wood coffins) over paper-made.” Still, Tri-Wall KK’s sales-- 2000 green coffins were shipped in 2007—are slowly increasing. “We receive calls from ____(10)_____ conscious people who say they’d like one for themselves,” Masuda says. *
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