Green Burial
Efforts being made by the Government to promote green burial as a more environmentally-friendly and sustainable means of handling human ashes, including enhancements to green burial facilities and services.
To meet the long term demand for facilities and services related to the disposal of cremated ashes, the Government has adopted the following three-pronged strategy –
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increasing the supply of public niches;
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enhancing the regulation of private columbaria; and
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promoting green burial.
Under current practice, niches are seldom recycled. The cumulative effects over time would be a severe drain on our scarce land resources, to an extent even worse than residential units for the living which are recycled through generations of inhabitants.
Scattering of Cremains in Garden Remembrance
One may choose to return to nature by having his/her cremated ashes scattered in the Garden of Remembrance.
13 Gardens of Remembrance of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) are located at the following 9 public columbaria:
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Cape Collinson [No.1 (Old) and No.2 (New)]
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Diamond Hill [No.1 (Old) and No.2 (New)]
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Wo Hop Shek (Phase III and Phase V)
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Fu Shan
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Kwai Chung [No.1 (Old) and No.2 (New)]
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Tsang Tsui, Tuen Mun
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Cheung Chau
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Peng Chau
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Lamma Island
Scattering of Cremated Ashes at Sea
In addition to keeping cremated human ashes in private or government columbarium, or scattering them in Gardens of Remembrance of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD), etc., members of the public may, subject to the approval of FEHD, scatter cremated human ashes in Designated Areas Hong Kong Waters.
The Designated Areas for the scattering of cremated human ashes at sea are as follows:
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East of Tap Mun;
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East of Tung Lung Chau; and
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South of West Lamma Channel.
