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India's eco-Friendly cremations

Report: Aletta André, New DelhiOctober 9, 2014

Hindus make up more than 80 percent of India's population. It's custom to cremate their deceased using burning wood pyres. With India's population at 1.2 billion people, that’s a lot of wood and lot of trees need to be cut down to keep up with demand. Now, a new more eco-friendly cremation method has been developed but convincing locals to adopt the new method is proving difficult.

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