The white rot perception opens up new fields in breeding/selecting for resistant cultivars of oil palms with high lignin content, ensuring the conditions for lignin decomposition are reduced, and simply sealing damaged oil palms to stop decay.

The treatment dried the body to stop decay.

Some hurdles facing the widespread adoption of recycled timber: Sometimes the ends of wall studs need to be trimmed off to stop decay and cracking, thus resulting in a longer piece of wood; this trimming may result in pieces of wood that don't meet building codes.

A good coffin will keep the water and worms out, but it doesn't stop decay.

The book argues that only children receive closer parental attention and that limiting population will stop environmental decay.