{"id":6711,"date":"2008-03-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/25\/cremation-actually-results-in-less-carbon-emissions-than-burial\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T12:00:00","slug":"cremation-actually-results-in-less-carbon-emissions-than-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/25\/cremation-actually-results-in-less-carbon-emissions-than-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"Cremation Actually Results in Less Carbon Emissions than Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,23355502-2702,00.html\">www.theaustralian.news.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">AUSTRALIA, March 11, 2008: South Australia&#8217;s largest cemetery commissioned a study into the environmental impacts of cremations and burials. The study found it was better for people to be cremated, compared with the long-term impact of burials, even though four times as much carbon dioxide was produced during the initial cremation process. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the day that a cremation or burial takes place, the volume of carbon dioxide produced is higher for cremation than for burial,&#8221; Centennial Park chief executive Bryan Elliott said.  &#8220;The report found that each cremation at Centennial Park generates approximately 160kg (352 pounds) of carbon dioxide equivalent. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each burial at Centennial Park generates approximately 39kg (86 pounds) of CO2. &#8220;However, when the long-term environmental footprint is considered, burials at Centennial Park have a 10 per cent greater impact than cremations. &#8220;This is because we must look after the gravesite for a number of years by watering and mowing the surrounding lawn area and maintaining the concrete beam on which the headstone is placed. <\/p>\n<p>HPI note: For those who like to know these things, driving a midsize car 1,000 miles a month produces 19.45 pounds of CO2\/day. Therefore, your cremation will produce the same amount of CO2 as driving your car for no more than 18 days.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.theaustralian.news.com.au AUSTRALIA, March 11, 2008: South Australia&#8217;s largest cemetery commissioned a study into the environmental impacts of cremations and burials.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}