A more green burial is on its way, says CBC.

Later this year, Royal Oak Burial Park in Victoria opens its natural burial site, believed to be the first of its kind in Canada. Executive director Stephen Olson explains that the company is responding to the community’s wishes: “There’s a tremendous amount of interest around green burials.” Olson says Royal Oak is developing a third of an acre of its cemetery for green burials. “The area where people will be interred will look like a meadow in the middle of the forest. After people are buried there, trees will be planted over top. Instead of traditional gravestones, there will be a common marker, likely a boulder where names can be marked.” Olson says caskets will be biodegradable and made of wood products, as well as unbleached recycled cardboard with a rigid base. “We want the casket to break down when the body is interred in the grave.”