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Return to Earth: Eco-Friendly Farewell Planning for a Meaningful and Greener Goodbye
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items It’s never easy to talk about death, but planning for it doesn’t have to be daunting. What if your farewell could honor both your values and the planet? Green funerals offer a meaningful, eco-friendly way to say goodbye—one that not only respects the...
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Biodegradable Caskets
Eco Friendly Urns
Eco-Friendly Disposition Methods
Books
Services and Resources
Biodegradable Caskets
As part of embracing eco-friendly funeral practices, choosing a biodegradable casket is a significant step. These caskets are made from natural materials that decompose naturally, ensuring minimal environmental impact. Here is a list of green biodegr...
This USA-made, unfinished pine casket offers a high-quality, 100% solid wood construction (with or without metal screws), fully assembled and customizable with handles and stain made to order, suitable for natural burial grounds, with optional person...
Plain Pine Casket
Crafted from unfinished White Pine, this eco-friendly pine box casket offers a rustic aesthetic perfect for burial or cremation, with rope handles for easy transport and an optional interior lining available upon request. It comes fully assembled, sh...
Titan Casket, Eco II Pine Box with Rope Handles
This handmade coffins are crafted from natural willow using traditional methods and are 100% biodegradable, with no nails or screws. Each coffin features a solid wooden base, three rope handles on each side, and includes an organic cotton pillow, she...
Wicker / Willow Coffins
The Titan Seagrass casket, handcrafted in Bangladesh, offers an eco-friendly option for funerals, made primarily from willow and seagrass rope. Its elegant design features a rounded top and a natural cotton interior, complete with a pillow and privac...
Wicker Coffin (Casket) - Natural Willow Casket with Seagrass
The Titan Bamboo casket, made in Bangladesh, offers an eco-conscious option with its biodegradable and metal-free construction. These caskets, suitable for viewing, services, burial, or cremation, feature durable handles and a natural cotton interior...
Wicker Coffin (Casket) - Natural Bamboo Casket
The White Willow Casket features a flat top and simple, dignified design, suitable for those seeking an eco-friendly farewell. Handcrafted from renewable willow and certified Fair Trade, each casket includes a matching pillow and privacy shield, with...
White Willow Casket
The Titan Fleece caskets, made from 100% British wool stretched over recycled fiberboard frames, offer a warm and comforting exterior. Generously lined with organic cotton and featuring jute edging and wooden toggle fastenings, they provide a dignifi...
Titan Fleece (Wool) - Woolen Casket
The Willow casket, crafted from sustainable willow plant material, offers durability and eco-friendliness without the need for cutting down the plant. Its simple yet dignified design, featuring a flat top and natural cotton interior with a pillow and...
Wicker Coffin (Casket) - Natural Willow Casket
The cardboard caskets, made from recycled wood with no metal components, are fully biodegradable and suitable for burial or cremation, allowing families to personalize farewells with decorations. They emphasize simplicity and eco-friendliness in end-...
Titan Virtue (Cardboard) | Cardboard Casket
Eco Friendly Urns
In line with sustainable funeral practices, selecting a green urn is another way to honor your loved one while caring for the environment. These urns are crafted from eco-friendly materials that break down naturally, ensuring a gentle return to the e...
The patented Flow™ Ice Urn is a unique floating urn crafted entirely from ice, offering a visually stunning and ecologically pure way to return cremated remains to nature. As it gracefully floats on water, the urn gradually releases the ashes, creati...
Ice Urn
The Bios Urn is a pioneering biodegradable urn that transforms ashes into a tree, an idea that beautifully completes the cycle of life. Made with 100% biodegradable materials, it offers various seed options to choose from, contained within a cardboar...
Bios Biodegradable Cremation Urn for Humans
The Eco Water Urn offers a simple and dignified way to scatter ashes in a body of water, allowing for a beautiful memorial experience. Designed to float upright like a buoy, this all-natural urn gradually dissolves in water, releasing the ashes to sp...
Eco Water Urn
This 100% eco-friendly urn is suitable for ground or water burial, allowing you to scatter cremated human ashes in a respectful and Earth-safe manner, making it a thoughtful choice for honoring a loved one while minimizing environmental impact.
Biodegradable Urn for Human Ashes (Shell Coral)
Crafted from naturally produced Himalayan rock salt, this biodegradable urn is designed for eco-friendly water or earth burial, gently dissolving within hours in water or biodegrading within approximately three months in soil. Each urn is uniquely pa...
Himalayan Salt Biodegradable Cremation Urn
The Peaceful Pillow® Fisherman Water Burial Urns offer a unique and biodegradable option for water or land burials, accented with sea blue paper and a nautical rope tie. Available in various sizes, they cater to different needs, from splitting ashes ...
Fisherman Peaceful Pillow
The White Peaceful Petal® Adult Flower Water Burial Urn is a handmade paper flower designed for scattering ashes on water, symbolizing honor and spiritual love. Made in the USA with seeded paper, it resembles a rose and can hold up to 300 cubic inche...
White Peaceful Petal
Eternal Reefs offers a unique alternative to traditional urns and ash scatterings, creating a permanent environmental legacy. This memorial option benefits the environment and future generations, while allowing families to actively participate in the...
Eternal Reefs
Eco-Friendly Disposition Methods
Choosing an eco-friendly method for handling a loved one's remains can significantly reduce environmental impact
Aquamation, also known as alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation, is a gentle and eco-friendly alternative to traditional cremation. It involves placing the body in a pressurized vessel filled with water and a solution of alkali, which accelerates th...
Aquamation | Water cremation
Books
Books about green burial.
"Grave Matters" explores how families are opting for environmentally friendly and more meaningful burial practices, foregoing traditional funeral customs for natural alternatives, as environmental journalist Mark Harris explores the history and proce...
Grave Matters: Journey Through Modern Funerals
Funeral expenses in the US exceed $10,000 annually, with conventional funerals contributing to significant environmental harm through the burial of millions of tons of materials and gallons of embalming fluid, but Elizabeth Fournier, known as the "Gr...
The Green Burial Guidebook: Plan an Eco-Friendly Burial
"Last Rights" by Stephen P. Kiernan advocates for reclaiming control over the dying process, emphasizing the importance of familial intimacy and providing a hopeful vision for honoring individuals during their final days, addressing the shortcomings ...
Last Rights: Rescuing End of Life from Medical System
"The Natural Death Handbook" empowers individuals to take control of funeral arrangements, offering guidance on everything from sourcing coffins to arranging unique funeral services like woodland burials, while also providing resources for those who ...
The Natural Death Handbook
Services and Resources
Based in the South West and serving Devon and Cornwall, with nearly 25 years of experience, The Green Funeral Company offers ecological alternatives for both burial and cremation.They provide a unique and immersive approach to organizing funerals, wo...
The Green Funeral Company
This is your resource for information on green burials and for locating certified cemetery stewards, funeral professionals, and funerary product vendors dedicated to offering sustainable after-death options for individuals, communities, and the envir...
Green Burial Council
List of Green Burial Cemeteries in the US and Canada
Green Burial Cemeteries in the US and Canada
Map of Green Burial Grounds
Green Burial Grounds
Endswell Funeral Home is a modern, eco-friendly funeral home in Hillsborough, North Carolina, offering sustainable end-of-life services including aquamation (water cremation), low-emission cremation, and green burial. They emphasize transparent prici...
Endswell Funeral Home
Routsong Funeral Homes, based in the Dayton area, is a Green Burial Council certified funeral home, providing eco-friendly end-of-life services. Their green burial options focus on minimizing environmental impact by using natural and biodegradable ma...
Routsong Funeral Homes
Billow's Funeral Homes, serving the Akron, Ohio area, is a Green Burial Council certified funeral home, committed to offering environmentally sustainable end-of-life options. Their green burial services focus on minimizing ecological impact by avoidi...
Billow's Funeral Home