Thousands of Americans are choosing "green" burial — which eschews chemical embalming as well as materials like concrete or metal which come with climate-harming carbon footprints — each year
Cindy Armstrong is pictured with a bag containing the composted remains of her son Andrew Armstrong at her home in Covington, Washington on March 15, 2022. Armstrong recalled her son Andrew insisting on the so-called "terramation" process after the western state of Washington in 2019 became the first in the United States to make it a legal alternative to cremation. (Credit: Jason Redmond / AFP)