Non-profit is recycling orthopedic implants after going through cremation

 
Joint Replacements Recycled? (written by Biloine Young @ OTW)
With American orthopedists installing more than a million artificial hips and knees a year in mostly aging patients (according to The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) has anyone thought about the ultimate fate of all those metal implants? One who has is Ray Saadeh, founder of Alternative Solutions USA, a California start up that collects used joint replacement parts.
They arrive at his warehouse in 10 gallon drums, shipped to him by crematoriums around the country. Saadeh sandblasts the parts and sorts them out. He ...