Traditional burial practices in the developed world are responsible for using huge amounts of resources, ranging from the materials used for coffins and vaults to the chemicals used to preserve bodies to the resources necessary to maintain huge grassy cemetery plots. (treehugger.com)
«There was a rapid scale up in safe burial practices in the month of September,» he said, adding that many people were isolated in Ebola treatment units, further curbing spread. (sciencemag.org)