Cunningham said green burials offer a way to skip the cremators, covered caskets and concrete vaults while honoring the dead in a “hands on” way. A woven basket, simple shroud and shallow ...

A Bay Area family came across a grim scene while visiting grandma’s grave for Mother’s Day. Erin Haley and her kids Ryland ...

The legislation defines green burial as the interment of a body without embalming or with only nontoxic substances, using biodegradable caskets or shrouds, and without concrete vaults or outer burial ...

New York City, though, requires at least 3 feet between the ground surface and the top of a casket or coffin. If the body is in a concrete vault, it needs to be just 2 feet below ground. For single ...

These canisters are still radioactive and thermally hot, so they are stored outdoors in concrete vaults that sit on concrete pads, also on the power plant’s property. These vaults have vents to ...

But there are also issues with terrain: it’s much harder to do the trenchwork and install underground vaults in sloped areas that pose the highest fire ignition risk. The concrete vaults can ...