Reducing the Carbon Footprint Of Your Funeral Home and Products
How to Reduce Carbon Foot Print at Your Business Establishment
More and more people are worrying about their carbon footprints and the effects it has on our environment. Automobiles are going green, cleaning supplies are going green, even electronic are going green.
Research shows there is an increasing demand for green products to help preserve our environment, so doesn't it make sense to go green with funeral services as well? Global warming is real, and people are trying to make conscious efforts to help prevent it.
Greenhouse Gases - Is It Difficult to Reduce This Type of Carbon Footprint?
The greenhouse gases are around for the lifetime of a product or a service! The making of products such as; caskets, urns, burial vaults, transportation and cremation emissions contribute to these gases.
There are many things you can do to help reduce such poisonous gases, and be part of the peoples who want and strive to be Eco-friendly. What's also great is that you don’t need to make huge changes to do so.
Reducing the Carbon Footprint of your Products at your Funeral Home Business
Becoming part of the movement for a healthy environment is quite a rewarding experience.
Below is a list of tips to help make your funeral home more Earth and eco-friendly, and energy efficient:
Research, Learn, Promote
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Find out about green burial cemeteries in your area and network with them to educate and increase your clientele
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Educate your local cemetery about natural burials without the use of a vault or tombstone
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Research and discuss alternative options such as resomation or promessa
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Listen and discuss different going green methods, and apply ideas you think would benefit you, your business, and your clients
The Use of Biodegradable Caskets, Urns, & Clothing
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Offer organic coffins or natural (biodegradable) caskets without metal or glue parts such as wood, wicker, bamboo or other natural material for your families
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Offer organic or biodegradable urns to your families
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Offer to dress the deceased in a shroud or natural clothing
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Use minimal or no cosmetics on the deceased
Save Our Trees!
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Use the internet and email to communicate with others; create less of a paper trail
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Minimize your paper trail by using software for your arrangement folders. Be sure to recycle paper
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Send an email or phone to express your after-care condolences
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Make prayer cards from recycled paper
Water, Electric, & Gas Conservation at Your Funeral Home
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Conserve water during the embalming procedure and when washing vehicles
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Maintain vehicles or inquire to automotive companies about creating a hybrid hearse
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Coordinate the procession with fewer cars or other vehicles that operate on gas, or offer to coordinate transportation
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Offer a horse drawn carriage/ hearse
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Use candles
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Change your light bulbs to energy efficient light bulbs
How to Make Your Funeral Services Eco Friendly
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Have information about donating your body to science available for families that inquire about it
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Host an afternoon memorial service
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Host funeral service outdoors to save on utilities
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When supplying drinking water use re-usable cups and water from a purifier
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Offer handkerchiefs instead of tissues
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Provide a webcasting service for funerals will virtually bring families together as well as save on gas or airfare
Try a Few of These Carbon Offsetting Tips Today
Utilizing these carbon footprint lowering solutions will definitely get you on the path to the road of continuing to help save our environment, as well as help you gain many more clients who share your same goals.
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