Metal recycling reaps charity funds

Pam Chilvers, bereavement services manager at Oakley Wood crematorium in Bishops Tachbrook, presented the money – which was raised through recycling metal implants from hip or knee replacements from cremations during the past year - to Macmillan Cancer Support last week.

The charity was chosen by Cllr Felicity Bunker, who was the chairman of Warwick District Council, which runs the crematorium, when Oakley Wood joined the recycling scheme.

The crematorium last year joined a national scheme run by the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management, which collects the metal and sends it to a recycling facility in mainland Europe.

The money handed over in exchange for the metal is then donated to the charities nominated by each crematorium involved in the scheme.

Mrs Chilvers said: “We cannot do this without people’s permission, so the people to thank are the bereaved who have given their consent to the metals of their loved ones being used in this way.”