12/14/2020
Did you know...
Every year in the U.S. we bury:
• 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid
• 90,272 tons of steels in caskets and vaults
• 2,700 tons of copper and bronze in casket linings
• 30, 000,000 board feet of hardwood, including wood from endangered forests, for caskets
• 1.6 million tons of reinforced concrete burial vaults
• Cremation is not environmentally friendly . . .
• The cremation of a single body requires up to 356 cubic feet of natural gas because humans are mostly water
• Cremation produces carbon dioxide and this exacerbates climate change
• Cremation produces sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which contribute to the formation of acid rain
• Cremation emits dioxin, which is one of the most potent toxins known
• Each cremation produces 1.6–8.5 grams of toxic mercury into the environment from cremated dental fillings (when buried with an entire body, fillings remain inert).
More info online at: www.finalfootprint.com
