What is a green burial and is a green burial legal?

Green burial can take place without the use of formaldehyde-based embalming, metal caskets, and concrete burial vaults. It’s the way most burials were performed for thousands of years up until the late 19th century. In some instances, green burial are used to facilitate ecological restoration and landscape-level conservation.
Green Burials are legal accept in cases of very rare diseases, such as cholera. There is nothing in federal, state or local law that requires embalming, caskets, grave markers, burial vaults or grave liners. For green burials, the use of Eco friendly caskets made from wicker or other organic material may be used. Traditional cemeteries may require, burial vaults or liners to reduce land settling on grave sites which makes it easier to mow the grass and ease of walking within the cemetery. Unembalmed bodies must be buried within 24-hours or be refrigerated, but there are several certified green funeral homes that provide refrigeration services.