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Posted: 29 January 2008 12:52 pm | 1st Post |
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From lightbulbs to loo rolls, green alternatives are available for everything these days.
And now a North-east community is to offer people biodegradable burials.
Finzean Community Council has applied to build a new cemetery to allow people to be buried in a field of wildflowers and shrubs beside Birse and Feughside Church.
The idea is to keep the site as natural as possible and gravestones would be laid flat on the ground.
And people will be encouraged to choose eco-friendly coffins made from more biodegradable material than their traditional equivalents.
James Leedam, co-director of green graveyard company Natural Burial Ltd, said more and more people wanted a green burial.
He said: "People choose a natural burial because they want to return to the earth in the most environmentally-friendly way possible.
"But at the moment there isn't the provision to give people the natural burial that they want."
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Posted: 29 January 2008 08:29 pm | 2nd Post |
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What a great idea we have natural burial ground near to us, which is where we both want to go, BUT not for a very long while yet.
So if anyone has a spare bit of land that you don't know what to do with it..... now you do 
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