During cremation with water, or alkaline hydrolysis, after 3-4 hours only bones remain from the human body, which are then ground into powder and placed in an urn. The eco-burial process will be available in the UK later this year.
In most parts of Europe, there are currently only two options for burial: coffin burial or traditional cremation, however, demand for more environmentally friendly solutions is growing. The UK’s largest funeral company, Co-op Funeralcare, is now reacting to this He presents Among its services is a procedure also called reoperation, which has been legal in the archipelago until now, but this will be the first time that this method of burial has been made widely available.
During the operation, the body of the deceased was filled with an alkaline solution into a steel vessel under pressure Developedthen they heat it up, so that the body practically decomposes completely, leaving only the bones, which are ground into powder and placed in an urn and given to the relatives of the deceased.
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Cremation with water requires a fifth of the energy required by the process in a conventional crematorium,
The relatively new method has several other advantages. For example, it can save 245 kg of carbon dioxide, which is released into the atmosphere during the burning of corpses by fire. In comparison, this carbon footprint is roughly the size of a smartphone shipped 29,000 times. Traditional burial also has its drawbacks, which is why it cannot be called overly environmentally conscious: in the United States, nearly 40,000 trees brokenIt uses 53,000 tons of steel annually to produce coffins, and the chemicals used to embalm the dead seep into the ground and contaminate the soil or even the surrounding water.
Restoration also has drawbacks from an environmental point of view, for example, that the process requires a relatively large amount of water, about 1,000 liters, and that its widespread use could increase the production of industrial chlor-alkali plants, whose operations involve the release of mercury and other contaminants.
The United Kingdom is not the only country where environmentally friendly burial procedures are available: in the United States, Canada and South Africa this service can already be ordered, and Belgium and the Netherlands are also planning to offer this method.
In our country, according to the law, only coffin burial and cremation can be carried out, however, if necessary, it is possible to “green” these procedures, for example with a biodegradable eco-urn. Since 2014, the biodegradable urn is at the roots of a memorial tree in Memorial Forest near Tata. DevelopedThe name of the deceased and his details are written on a board and placed on the chosen tree.
(Cover photo: Co-op Funeralcare)
