For this edition of the Scrub Hub, we are answering questions about 'greener' burials: What are they and how do they work?

To earn a hybrid certification — meant for sites with both green and conventional burial grounds — cemeteries must use biodegradable caskets and avoid vaults or toxic embalming fluids ...

Emily Jones owns and operates A Dove Above, a business that provides trained dove releases for events within a 20-mile radius of Cleveland County. Jones trains her 50 homing doves to return to their ...

Green burials do away with elaborate caskets, embalming fluids, concrete vaults and tombstones. Instead, bodies are buried in simple caskets or shrouds with discrete markers — often a small ...

The Green Burial Council is a related body that ... became common in the wake of the Civil War which make use of caskets, burial vaults, embalming chemicals — involve a copious amount of ...

A Michigan township is using a new ordinance to block a natural burial business six months after losing to the cemetery’s ...

Green burial can mean different things to different ... Usually, bodies are buried in a metal casket or one that is wood but lacquered and treated with other chemicals. These materials do not ...