NEW DELHI—Amidst the deadly COVID-19 surge in India, a startup is using fuel-efficient cow dung logs as an alternative to wood to cremate poor and unidentified bodies. In India 8.2 million wood-based cremations are done every year for which 16.4 million trees are cut, according to Project Arth, a social initiative that wants to reduce deforestation and use cow dung-based logs to sustain society. With the pandemic surging in India since last month and the number of wood-based cremations only increasing, Indian media last week were replete with reports about the acute wood shortage in the capital New Delhi. The civic authorities of Delhi tried to seek assistance from their forest department and from the neighboring states but continued to face problems because the neighboring states are also simultaneously facing a surge. Ayush Sultania, the team leader of Project Arth told The Epoch Times over the phone that each cremation …