Eddy's Good News: New equipment in Paris's aquatic centre and water cremation

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17 Jul 2023, 09:04

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Monday 17th July 2023

Good news from Paris where spectators in the new aquatics centre will be watching the swimming, diving and waterpolo (that is a brutal sport by the way if you’re a man, they go for your plums…but I digress…) events on 11,000 plastic seats made out of plastic collected from recycling bins in the area.

In fact, 80% of them are made from plastic thrown away in the very neighbourhood where international bums will hit these seats at the upcoming games: “It’s collected in Seine-Saint-Denis, shredded in Seine-Saint-Denis, processed in Seine-Saint-Denis, all for a swimming pool that’s still in the area,” says the lady in charge of this recycling venture.

The seats were rigorously tested for UV resistance, fire resistance, toxicity, and crucially also subjected to rigorous mechanical resistance tests to see how well they remain fixed to the floor under persistent attempts to rip them out—the good old drunken angry spectator test! I’m hoping they got testers really drunk and angry to properly test this. They could have used most of Facebook after about 7pm.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Good news from here in the UK as our biggest cremation services provider adds a new low carbon alternative to its menu, water cremation!

I thought this would be burial at sea when I first came across this, but turns out it’s more interesting as we say hello to resomation, rather than cremation, which is, scientifically speaking, alkaline hydrolysis. It uses an alkaline solution which reduces a body down to a skeleton in three hours, after which the bones are ground into a powder and given to the family in an urn. It uses five times less energy than a cremation and it’s the end of life solution - pun intended - chosen by the anti apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Co-Op Funeral Care are offering this later this year after it’s been given the green light by the powers that be. 89% of the UK have never heard of water cremation and I was in that demographic until now, where I feel we may have nudged that percentage a little smaller.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org