Ashes to ashes

This message really should go to the alpine plant contingent. But I needed to share it nonetheless.
"So many people's ashes are being scattered on the summits that it's changing the chemical balance of the soil, fertilising it with phosophorus and calcium, to the detrmiment of rare alpine plants." !!  The mountains are in the UK: Ben Nevis, Snowdon, and Scafell.
There is a notice to those wishing to scatter: "try throwing them into the air on a windy day, or into a corrie so they disperse more widely, or under a tree on the lower slopes."
A corrie is a circular hollow.
Two friends' ashes are buried in my garden. No more interments here now that I have read the above. The ultimate pollution. bill grant
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