Even In Death You Can Be Carbon Neutral

A Scottish based company has come up with a solution to minimising our carbon footprint when we die.  

No more leaching of embalming fluids into the ground or carbons and mercury vapour from amalgam fillings being released to the atmosphere for those who prefer cremation, now you can be RESOMATED.

Resomation is a process developed by Glasgow based Resomation Limited turns your body into a small pile of powder which can be presented to the bereaved in the traditional urn.

The process involves placing the coffin and body in the Resomator, where it is immersed in a water and alkali solution.  The process, known as alkaline hydrolysis, takes around two hours to complete, around the same time as a conventional cremation.

Resomation Limited was the recipient of the James Baird Logie Award for Early Stage Impact Through Innovation in 2010 and also the Jupiter Big Ideas Award in the Observer Ethics Awards. 


The Resomation process has been used in Queensland and Utah and Florida in the US.