A green or natural burial involves interring a body that hasn’t been preserved with embalming chemicals in a biodegradable ...

Green burials, where the person is buried in a wicker basket without embalming, can reduce one's ecological footprint after death.

To earn a hybrid certification — meant for sites with both green and conventional burial grounds — cemeteries must use biodegradable caskets and avoid vaults or toxic embalming fluids ...

Jake’s grave is tucked at the back of the cemetery, past where many passersby may have thought the cemetery ended. Beyond the ...

According to the Green Burial Council, the funeral industry uses 4.3 million gallons of embalming fluid, 1.6 million tons of ...

At its most basic, a green funeral is an environmentally friendly, natural process, where there is no embalming or a heavy, solid casket. The body is buried in the ground wrapped in a compostable ...