One cremation of a ‘traditional’ coffin produces the same NOx emissions as one standard car travelling 2,280 miles. One small city like Liverpool cremates around 4300 people a year, which is equivalent to 9,804,000 car miles. Globally there are 35 million coffins sold every year Around 98 percent of coffins used in cremation are still made from veneered particle board, MDF and some cardboards that require trees to make the wood pulp and glues to bind this together that produc