What is green burial?

We can use a pre-made shroud of biodegradable fibers or a sustainable casket that’s made of maybe bamboo, woven willow, simple pine, or seagrass. The shroud can be cotton, linen, silk. There’s a lot of varieties there. Natural burial also skips the outer burial container, so that’s that hundreds of pounds, 1,500 pounds, pardon me, of concrete that we place into the ground and then place the casket inside. There’s no state or federal law that requires a concrete outer burial container. It’s cemeteries who require it, and they require it to keep the ground level and to maintain and carry the weight of the Earth. But if we simply place a person in a shroud or a casket in the ground, that space is going to fall in or sink over time.

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