From cardboard coffins to compost, a group of environmentalists are carving a greener path to the great hereafter.
Death is a messy business. In America alone, 1.6 million tonnes of cement and over 870,000 gallons of embalming fluid - commonly containing formaldehyde - are buried along with 2.5 million caskets every year.
“What you have here is a landfill … a toxic landfill,” says Glen Ayers of the Green Burial Committee as he looks around a traditional graveyard in Massachusetts.
See full Article: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/earthrise/2013/07/2013722103321611250.html
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