One thing we know for certain about death is that we will definitely run out of room to bury people in the very near future. The switch to universal cremation is inevitable. But even after we switch ...

Such burials require no formaldehyde embalming, vaults or laminated caskets. Cynthia Beal talks about the Ecopod, a kayak-looking container made out of recycled newspaper from the United Kingdom, at ...

The in basket: My stepson. Ryan Cooper, said he’d heard about a ceremony aboard a state ferry recently in which the boat was stopped for five minutes so the ashes of a deceased former ferry employee ...

The good news: Compostable packaging does actually turn to compost just like your food scraps do, which is way gentler on the ...

EcoPure has won another customer for its additive technology that renders plastic bottles biodegradable. SodaStream International Ltd. (Airport City, Israel) will utilize Bio-Tec Environmental LLC's ...

In an effort to mitigate consumer confusion and help maintain the integrity of recyclable materials streams, three laws proposed in North Carolina and Alabama would require containers made from ...