Cremation is often wrongly considered as the most environmentally friendly way of organising a funeral.

A cremation produces an average of 50kg of CO2. They are also responsible for around 15% of mercury emissions in the country as a whole. Other chemicals released into the atmosphere include dioxin, hydrochloric acid and sulphur dioxide and of course there's all that timber which goes to waste.

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