Showing posts with label body donor program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label body donor program. Show all posts

Friday, September 21, 2012

Reduce Carbon Footprint with “Flameless Cremation”

Minnesota is leading the way in “green cremation,” a flameless process of reducing a body to its basic elements using alkaline hydrolysis. The Mayo Clinic Medical School has been using hydrolysis in its body donor program for several years, but last month, the first commercial unit in the US was opened in Stillwater, MN.

For a Minneapolis Star Tribune article, see http://www.startribune.com/local/162436556.html

For a KARE-11 TV story, see http://www.kare11.com/news/article/983169/391/Minnesotas-first-green-cremation-center-opens