OK, maybe I should have checked first, but whatever - here's the corrected stats, courtesy of www.beatree.com. It's entirely possible that I wrote them down wrong. At any rate, they're still pretty mind-boggling:
What’s Buried Along with our Loved Ones in U.S. Cemeteries Every Year
- 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid
- 90,272 tons of steel (caskets)
- 2,700 tons of copper and bronze (caskets)
- 1,636,000 tons of reinforced concrete (vaults)
- 14,000 tons of steel (vaults)
- 30-plus million board feet of hardwoods (much tropical; caskets)
Source: Mary Woodsen, Greensprings Natural Cemetery FAQ, March, 2007; http://naturalburial.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemi
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