Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Inside the industrial incinerators tasked with ‘respectful disposal’ of anatomical waste

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Mark Shtanov, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester

Awkwardly smiling, a chemist at a waste site is telling me about industrially incinerating corpses. We are crammed into a claustrophobic funnel at the entry point to a rattling shed with high-vis-jacketed workers scurrying to and fro.

The air smells oily and mechanical. With our voices lowered, the conversation is not flowing smoothly. There is a slightly uncomfortable atmosphere, perhaps indicating certain things on our minds that aren’t being said. Passing the waste storage area on my way out, I nervously scan the stacked container rows for the yellow drums which sometimes contain…

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