Recycled prosthetics raise €30k for crematorium's charities

Lakelands Funeral Home and Crematorium has donated over €30,000 to the local hospice and palliative care service in Cavan.

A crematorium has donated over €30,000 to local charities by recycling prosthetic limbs and other metals collected from the ashes of the deceased.

Metal hips, knees, surgical plates and pins, and teeth fillings — as well as the coffin handles — are all separated from the ashes of the deceased and sent to a company in the Netherlands.