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From Ashes

Editorial

Sources & fact checking

Where the figures on From Ashes come from, how a claim gets checked before it is published, and how often each guide is reviewed.

What we draw on

Provider pricing and specifications
Taken from the provider's own published pricing at the date of review, in the currency they quote. We record the date because memorial pricing moves, and a stale figure is worse than none.
Regulators and official guidance
Rules on scattering, transporting and exporting ashes come from the relevant national authority — for example the UK Environment Agency, the US Environmental Protection Agency and TSA, and provincial regulators in Canada.
Crematoria and funeral directors
Practical questions — how much ash a cremation produces, how urns are sized, how collection works — are checked against published guidance from crematoria and industry bodies such as the Cremation Association of North America, rather than inferred.
Manufacturing and materials
Claims about how a process physically works (carbon extraction for diamonds, glass annealing, resin curing) are checked against the descriptions published by the providers who carry it out.

How a claim gets checked

  1. A claim is drafted with its source recorded alongside it.
  2. Figures are checked against the primary source, not a secondary article repeating it.
  3. Anything that cannot be verified is cut, or published with an explicit note that it is an estimate.
  4. Every page shows the date it was published or last updated, and figures carry the date they were checked.
  5. Reader corrections are investigated and, where correct, applied with a note of what changed.

Spotted something that looks wrong? Tell us — include the page and what you believe the correct figure is, and we will check it against the source. Our editorial standards explain what happens next.