How Implants and Prosthetic Limbs Get Recycled and Reused
Every year , gazillion of pacemaker , metal pelvic arch , and prosthetics outlast the bodies they ’re design for . But these aesculapian devices could very well go on to have a 2d - life — in elevator car , wind turbines , and even another someone . The implant are , after all , full of worthful alloy like titanium or cobalt alloy . Cremation makes the metallic element easily recoverable , spell Frank Swainin a absorbing investigation into the hereafter of medical devices ....