District’s graveyard running out of space
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CEMETERY officials in Jiading are promoting eco-friendly burials as the graveyards in the district are running out of space.
The Songhe Cemetery, covering an area of 64 hectares, is half full with 300,000 tombs, and the Chang’an Cemetery has the same problem.
“We offer 6,000 tombs every year,” Lin Jianjun, a Songhe Cemetery official said. “If there is no follow-up area, we will have no more tombs in 17 years.”
Since 2006, cemeteries in Jiading have been trying new eco-friendly and technology-oriented burial methods to save space.
One option is a smaller, 1-square-meter tomb. Nearly 90 percent of people now choose this.
Another option is using urns, which only occupy 0.06 square meters. The urns can dissolve in the soil and the land can be reused after 10 years. However, only 150 people have ordered these eco-friendly urns since they were promoted 18 months ago.
Other methods include sea burials and burial under trees, but neither has proved popular.
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