according to the National Funeral Directors Association's 2021 report, and a cremation casket and urn combined cost an average of about $1,600. Wood burial caskets cost even more, about $3,000.

As well as selling top quality wool to buyers around the world, Polly and Ross McGuckin's Yaldhurst Wools business also provides funeral homes with biodegradable caskets and ash urns made from New… ...

Once buried, they say, the biodegradable plastic shell breaks down ... without changing its chemical balance too dramatically. While the burial of ashes may be environmentally friendly, cremation ...

Previous urns featured on Dezeen include biodegradable burial urn made from wool and underwater urns that double as oyster reefs.

(Submitted by the Coopérative funéraire de l'Estrie) In 2012, the funeral co-operative built a trail through the trees. Biodegradable urns are buried on either side. ''It is very popular.

operated the “Return to Nature” funeral home, which specialized in “green burials” involving biodegradable containers and urns and not embalming the body. Green burials are legal in ...