At a factory in Sri Lanka’s Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia city, workers use staples and glue to assemble long cardboard boxes, which will be used as coffins for some of the country’s coronavirus victims. The ...

The Dehiwala-Mt. Lavinia Municipal Council has begun a project to produce coffins made out of cardboard. MC Member Priyantha Sahabandu spearheads the project. Pix by Pradeep Dilrukshana ...

No one gets out of here alive. But you don’t necessarily have to go first class. There’s the cardboard-box cremation rather than the buried metal casket, of course. But there’s also the lower-cost ...

CARDBOARD coffins and bushland burials are on the rise as families opt for environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional burial and cremation. Shrinking space in cemeteries and a growing ...