Afterlife: how hip replacements can end up in jet engines

OrthoMetals is working with more than half of the UK's crematoriums to melt down and sell on replacement hips and knee joints

Our bodies might not live forever, but the prospect of an afterlife beckons for the metal hips or knees we might be carrying. The recycling of prosthetics such as titanium hip replacements and cobalt chrome knee joints from crematoriums is a growing trend across the UK and in some parts of Europe where cremation rates are high.

Nobody wants their garden of remembrance to be listed as a landfill site.