This recycling is a mitzvah. You shall eat bread until you return to the earth from which you were taken. This is why we should use a wooden casket, not metal, and we should be buried in the earth, not in a concrete vault or box. Yet many Jews today do use vaults, and most cemeteries require concrete cases for every casket. With cremation one can return the ashes directly to the earth.
Cremation also offers an opportunity to do a mitzvah.
It is better to give money to charity than to bury it in the ground. An average funeral costs three to four times as much as cremation. Temple Akiba's cremation plan offers a Jewish option to those who desire cremation. The ashes can be interred in the Sam and Annette Weiss Memorial Garden next to the Rabbi's office. A name plate can be placed in the garden or in the Temple Sanctuary.