Do you have cremated remains and aren’t sure what to do with them?
You’re not alone.
Untreated Ashes are as toxic as bleach. At Evergreen Ashes, we make them environmentally friendly so you can create meaningful farewell rituals that honour loved ones across the days, months, and years to come.
13,000
Each year, around 13,000 Greater Sydney residents take a loved one’s ashes home - often stored in an urn or a cupboard.
Eventually someone must decide what to do with those remains. That’s where Evergreen Ashes can help.
Each year in Greater Sydney
People are cremated
Families take the ashes home
Ashes per set
Ashes overall
Ashes that need a meaningful resting place. Finding responsible, respectful options for these remains is an increasingly pressing issue.
What we offer
We offer beautiful, cost-effective memorial trees in public parks - living memorial for one or multiple family members, and even beloved pets. Because untreated cremated remains can harm the environment, we developed a safe laboratory process that neutralises toxins and converts ashes into a nutrient‑rich, environmentally friendly form suitable for spreading around a tree.
You choose a tree in a local park, and we negotiate a licence with the local council that grants you permission to use a selected tree for your family.
toxic
Untreated Ashes are as toxic as bleach.
How we do it
We manage the entire process, including laboratory treatment, negotiations with local councils, and a respectful memorial ceremony at a council-approved park location.
Each tree can accommodate up to eight sets of ashes, creating a permanent family memorial that endures through generations.
These trees are self-maintaining, require no leasing fees, and provide a beautiful, living legacy where families can establish roots and cherish memories for years to come.
Who we are
Martin Moroney, a Sydney funeral designer, director, and celebrant with a background in behavioural science, founded Evergreen Ashes after noticing that many families didn’t know what to do with their loved one’s ashes. His vision is to provide supportive, compassionate, and professional guidance, helping families make choices their loved ones would have wanted. Partnering with Dr Peter Bacon, a natural resource scientist with a PhD in soil and water management, they developed a process to neutralise cremated remains and make them environmentally friendly — blending personal care with scientific expertise.
Where memories grow
Where memories grow
Legacy Creation
Already have ashes at home? We’ll help you transform them into a beautiful memorial tree with care and guidance every step of the way.
Farewell to Forever
Looking for complete support? We provide full funeral services and, after cremation, create a living tribute through a tree of your choice.
Companion Service
Working with another funeral director? We can step in after cremation to process the ashes, arrange the tree, and host a meaningful ceremony.
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Marking the exact location of the tree is important—and becomes more so over time. Because local councils (and we) discourage attaching plaques to trees, we maintain a database of tree locations and provide you with a mobile app that pinpoints the tree to within three metres, making it easy to find the exact spot.
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Local councillors want to offer more services to constituents and would welcome the chance to say, “Mary lived in this suburb for 30 years and can now remain here in spirit.”
However, councils carefully manage their trees, and scattering human ashes on council land is prohibited.
Our innovative treatment process changes that. Council tree managers require assurance that they retain control, so they approve our method and issue us with a licence for each event. With a licence in place, we can hold a small, ash‑spreading ceremony that meets council requirements and avoids complaints. We design and deliver that event for you as part of the service we offer.
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You may scatter cremated remains in many places—waterways (including the ocean), parks or bushland, private property, or a cemetery’s scattering garden—but you must have the landowner’s or council’s permission. Sea burials and other locations may also be subject to federal, state, and local regulations.
Some people choose to scatter ashes discreetly, but that can conflict with your environmental values—untreated ashes can harm the places the deceased loved.
Evergreen Ashes offers an environmentally friendly solution: treated remains and lasting physical tributes that can be enjoyed for generations - tributes that can accommodate additional ashes in time.
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In the Sydney metropolitan area, a grave plot and burial can often exceed $12,000, while interment of ashes in a cemetery memorial park can cost up to $4,500.
Evergreen Ashes fee compares favourably with what you would pay for a premium spot in a cemetery.
Over time, as additional family members - and even pets - are memorialised in the same place, the Evergreen Ashes solution becomes increasingly practical and cost‑effective.
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