Flameless-cremation boosters point to the fact that standard cremations use up fuel, take up to four hours, and spew some 550 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air.

The Senate voted Friday to give Utahns an option besides burial or cremation to handle bodies: alkaline hydrolysis. It is sometimes also called flameless cremation, water cremation or green ...

According to Atlas Obscura, flameless cremation uses a combination of heated water and chemicals instead of fire to render your physical being into something more easily managed.

New Flameless Cremation Process Could Be Legalized In Illinois December 28, 2011 / 6:27 PM CST / CBS Chicago CHICAGO (CBS) -- For 20,000 years, people have been using fire to cremate their loved ones.

While emissions from flame-based cremations aren't altogether avoidable, flameless cremation renders a body to ashes using significantly less energy and producing substantially less pollution than ...

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — The first flameless cremation facility for humans in the state of California is now open in San Diego County. White Rose Aqua Cremation in Escondido offers a completely water ...

The machine has been dubbed "green cremation" or "flameless cremation." BBC News An environmentally-friendly form of cremation is gaining traction in the United States, Neil Bowdler of BBC reports.

Flameless cremation, which involves the dissolution of bodies with heated water and lye and the pulverization of remaining bones, is legal in 14 states. Legislation on flameless cremation is ...

A "flameless cremation" device could remove the hazard of vaporized mercury resulting from cremating the deceased, according to a report by the BBC.

He describes it as “flameless cremation” because what it entails is using the gentle flow of warm water mixed with alkali (usually sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide) to naturally liquefy ...

Flameless cremation dissolves dead and pours them into water supply for eco-friendly burial A green burial method offers clean and easy disposal of bodies which uses water instead of fire Comments ...