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Green Funerals: By the Numbers
- 56 million: The approximate number of people that die each year around the globe.
- 50 million: Trees that are cut down in India each year for funeral pyres. This releases 8 million tons of carbon dioxide.
- 200: The number of green and woodland burial sites in the U.K.
- Up to 16 percent: Mercury emissions in the U.K. that come from crematoria because of the fillings in teeth. This percentage is expected to increase to 25 percent by 2020.
- 1.6 million: Tons of reinforced concrete buried in the U.S. each year in the construction of vaults.
Sources: Yahoo!, TreeHugger, Green.TV, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Green Burial Council
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