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Cape towns explore earmarking space for green burials


WELLFLEET More and more businesses are looking at ways of going green. On the Cape, that could also eventually include cemeteries.
The town s Cemetery Commission invited commissioners from other Cape towns including Brewster, Eastham, Falmouth, Orleans, Provincetown and Wellfleet to take part in a Zoom call Feb. 17 to discuss green burials and what it would take to offer them on the Cape.
Green burial options forgo embalming with formaldehyde
While traditional burials involve embalming a body with formaldehyde before putting it into a casket and then inside a concrete vault, green burials forgo the embalming and vaults and require that a body be buried in biodegradable shrouds or caskets.  ....

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