Updated April, 2025
Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of helping families plan scattering of ashes ceremonies.
But I have to say that a ceremony by the water is probably my favourite.
But it also requires a little bit of careful planning and reading, to avoid any mishaps on the important day.
If you’re planning to scatter at sea, there are a few biodegradable urns for water on the market.
From the feedback of families, I decided to make a list of favorite water urns on the market.
These urns are great because of their aesthetics, quality, and value for money.
Good luck, hope you find what you need!
My Favorite Water Scattering Urns
- Best Overall Design: Dolphin Biodegradable Urn
- Best For Writing Messages: Keepsake Biodegradable Turtle Urn
- Best Cheap Eco Urn: Paper Turtle Simple Bio Urn
- Most Innovative Design: Small Whale Bio Urn
Fresh Flowers Biodegradable Urn
The fresh flowers biodegradable urn offers a commending way to scatter the ashes in water. This urn is created with biodegradable materials, making them perfect for water burials. Each urn is handmade by skilled artisans and is available in five nature inspired colors to select from.
Show your devotion and love for a departed loved one with this eco-friendly decomposable memorial urn.
Lotus Handmade Biodegradable Urn
The Lotus flowers are viewed as sacred for reawakening, resilience, and purity. Because they ascent from the mud without blemishes, they are often seen as symbols of virtue.
This exquisite urn features a single hand painted lotus flower resting on a base that holds the ashes of a departed loved one.
You can choose between three color options for the flower, and further customise it by adding your choice of fresh flowers.
Show your devotion and affection for someone you’ve last with this truly remarkable and symbolic memorial urn.
Dolphin Biodegradable Water Burial Urn
This extraordinary dolphin urn is the perfect send off cremation keepsake with its blue and tan hues that reminds you of the beach and ocean life.
Each item is uniquely crafted by artists using environmentally, biodegradable materials.
Celebrate the essence of a departed soul and pay your last respects with this characteristic and charming water burial urn.
Simple Handmade Biodegradable Urn
If you are searching for a simple biodegradable urn that can be used as a vessel to scatter a loved one’s ashes in water, then this urn is perfect.
It is made from biodegradable materials so it will dissolve within minutes. These urns are available in aesthetically beautiful oceanic inspired colors, including seagrass green, coral, surf blue, natural, or shell white.
The ocean symbolizes mystery, boundlessness, power, stability, and strength. It is an ideal choice for scattering the ashes of someone that had an immense love for the ocean or water.
Large Adult Eco Sea Burial Turtle Urn
Honor your loved one’s memory with this beautifully handcrafted biodegradable turtle urn, thoughtfully designed for a water scattering ceremony. This eco-friendly urn is meticulously created by skilled artisans using environmentally safe materials that gracefully dissolve in water, symbolizing a gentle return to nature.
The turtle, a timeless symbol of endurance, tranquility, and harmony with the ocean, offers a meaningful tribute for your loved one’s final journey.
Sand Dollar Water Burial Biodegradable Urn
Cherish the memory of your loved one with the Sand Dollar Biodegradable Urn, thoughtfully designed for a tranquil water burial. The sand dollar is a serene symbol of peace, renewal, and life’s simple beauty. Honor their legacy and spirit with this elegant and meaningful memorial urn.
Small Whale Biodegradable Urn
Whales are revered and honored by the native people of the Pacific Coast and South American Nasca.
They are known for solitude, compassion, and knowledge of life and the beyond.
Some people associate them with unbridled creativity and exhaling through their blowhole signifies liberating your creative energies.
Perhaps the person you have lost was an innovative, arty, and creative soul which makes this small biodegradable whale the perfect send off urn to consider.
Each urn is available in two color options and specially crafted by skilled artists who only use plant-based glue and paper. If you wish to upsize, you can choose the larger companion size option.
Pay your last respects by scattering your loved one’s ashes in the sea with this rare and striking cremation urn.
Large Whale Biodegradable Companion Urn
The beach or land is often linked to the physical world, whereas water is considered to be part of the spiritual and emotional realm.
This large whale urn, therefore, offers a symbolic and endearing way to scatter a loved one’s ashes in the ocean.
It is specially crafted with eco-friendly, biodegradable materials which means it will naturally disintegrate over time. Each urn is inimitable and comes in two color options. This urn is a companion urn, but you can opt for the smaller sized urn suitable for one person’s ashes.
Journey Biodegradable Floating Container
The journey urn is a best seller for water burial containers. Attractive and economical, it’s a lovely blue shade with flecked texture. Made from paper, it easily dissolves in water.
The design & materials
The container is constructed with paper made from Mulberry tree bark and reclaimed cardboard. No mulberry trees are destroyed.
After the cremains are placed in the included bag, they are inserted into the container. It is folded with an attractive band, which keeps it closed.
Scattering the ashes
After being placed in the water, it floats briefly and breaks down within minutes. It is also suitable for an earth burial.
How to purchase
If you wish to purchase this biodegradable urn or want to find more about it, click through to their online store.
Silverlight Urns Embrace Floral Bouquet Eco Urn
This biodegradable box-shaped urn is suitable for earth burial.
It is crafted of mulberry bark using an ancient process that protects the tree from damage.
The bark has been dried in the sun to provide a soft, natural texture.
Cremains are placed in a water-soluble bag, which is then placed inside the urn.
The delicate multi-colored background is decorated by a beautiful floral inset.
It’s an ideal way to celebrate a loved one who enjoyed the beauty of nature.
What does a biodegradable urn usually include?
The type of urn is very important. Many urns that are intended for a ground burial, do not easily dissolve in water. It could take a very long time to break down.
Urns that are specifically made for a water burial will dissolve quickly.
The urn
There are a huge variety of water urns, which we will discuss later.
Water soluble biodegradable bag
Included with the urn will be a water-soluble bag. The ashes are placed into the bag and attached to or placed in the urn, in some manner.
Scattering ashes in water
As mentioned, the ashes can be poured directly into the water. But of late, it has become preferable to contain the ashes in a biodegradable urn beforehand.
If you’re planning a scattering at sea ceremony, I highly recommend you read the Cremation Institute’s guide which goes through the whole process.
Journey Biodegradable Floating Container, does this come in extra large to hold cremains of two?
Can’t find the blue cushion on Amazon and that’s the one I want
Can the ocean scattering tube be put directly into the water rather than scattering the ashes. If so, how long does it take for the tube to disintegrate?
Is there a biodegradable urns I can purchase now even though I might not need it for 10 years
Can you recommend a extra large one so I can place both my Mum and Das ashes in the same one as Id like to send them off together at sea?
Hi can you do a biodegradable fish? Kind like the turtle at all??
Thanks
Hi Mikayla, I would recommend looking on the You Are Forever biodegradable urns page i know they have turtles, whales, and dolphins.
What is the best /safest way to bury cremated pet remains. The United States EPA site site states it prohibits
cremated pet remains from being buried in the ocean.
Hi Maryanne, the EPA doesn’t prohibit scattering ashes in the ocean. They require that cremated remains be scattered at least three nautical miles from land.