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Metal body parts of dead being recycled into plane engines
April 12, 2013
Steel hips, plates and screws from legs and skulls of people, who are dead, are collected after cremation and sent off for recycling. Metal plates from false teeth and tiny fragments from fillings can also be recovered and re-used, together with metal fittings on coffins, the metals, which survive the 1,000 degree Celsius cremation, are then sold for use in the automobile and aeronautical industries, the Sun reported. 
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