Recompose and the American architectural design firm Olson Kundig Architects have announced that they will open a completely new composting facility in 2021. The World's First Human Composting ...

During human composting, the body is placed in a specialized polycarbonate vessel that's eight feet long, three and a half feet wide, and three and a half feet tall. As Halloween draws near, images of ...

Nina Shoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Shoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into soil ...

Depending on where you live — and die — you might have a new choice available to you for how your loved ones will carry out your final wishes. In the past two years, bills that legalize human ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that involves turning loved ones into ...

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GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Sep 25, 2025 at ...

There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize ...

Martha Stewart has sparked conversation after revealing she would like to be composted after death, describing the idea as an ...