from liquid burials to corpse compost: the eco innovators finding new ways to dispose of the dead /

Published at 2017-12-18 19:17:33

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A West Midlands council wants to expend tall-tech methods for less wasteful burials – what are the most environmentally friendly ways to take care of cadavers?Dying is easy enough. Like falling off a log,really. In some cases not even “like”. But the decomposition of a human body? Not so simple.
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t turns out most of us occupy been doing it wrong for years now. In an eco age, and both burial (which releases methane,21 times more harmful than CO2), and cremation (calculated to expend 2000 cubic feet of natural gas and 4 kilowatt-hours of electricity per body) occupy downsides.
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Source: guardian.co.uk

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