What does it mean if a cemetery is Green Burial Council certified?
GBC certification allows consumers to be able to distinguish between the four levels of green burial ground and understand that each has a different set of standards. It requires cemetery operators commit to certain degree of transparency, accountability and third party oversight. And it prevents future owners from going back on whatever ecological or aesthetic promises have been made in the past — from limitations on burial density that to protect a local ecosystem to prohibitions against the use of monuments that would negatively impact a viewshed.
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