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What is buried annually?
In the United States, what is buried annually along with our loved ones?
- 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid - (enough embalming fluid to fill eight Olympic size swimming pools)
- 90,272 tons of steel (caskets) - (enough steel to reconstruct the Golden Gate Bridge)
- 2,700 tons of copper and bronze (caskets)
- 1,636,000 tons of reinforced concrete (vaults) - (enough concrete to build a two-lane highway from Seattle to San Francisco)
- 14,000 tons of steel (vaults)
- 30-plus million board feet of hardwoods, including much tropical (caskets)
Source: Mary Woodsen, Greensprings Natural Cemetery FAQ, March, 2007
