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Every year in the United States the commercial funeral industry uses
• 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid
• 180,544,000 pounds of steels for caskets
• 5,400,000 pounds of copper for lining caskets
• 30, 000,000 board feet of hard woods, including tropical woods, for caskets
• 3,272,000,000 pounds of reinforced concrete for burials vaults
• 28,000,000 pounds of steel for vaults

Modern cemeteries upset the natural landscape with the overuse of valuable open space. Huge expanses of grass are kept alive through the use of fertilizers, herbicides, and frequent watering. Expensive cement vaults, leak-proof caskets, mausoleums, polished granite tombstone markers, and even plastic flowers deplete resources and degrade the landscape. Green burial sites, on the other hand, use indigenous vegetation and are designed to eliminate the use of water, pesticides, or other unnatural materials.

Final Footprint has thoroughly researched every aspect of the green burial movement in America. As a member of Green America, we are committed to environmentally responsible production of our products.

It is our passionate desire to establish green burial parks and to actively seek the reduction of pollution caused by the commercial funeral industry and to provide, restore, and maintain natural habitat for birds and other wild creatures.