The push for environmental consciousness has sparked the rise of not only green energy initiatives, but now also the move to “green burials” or “human composting” practices over more traditional ...

Katrina Spade, the founder and CEO of Recompose, showing off the wood shavings and other plant mulch used to help bodies compost in a photo taken in April 2019 Photo: Elaine Thompson (AP) Death is ...

Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to ...

LAFAYETTE, Colo. (CBS4) - Less than a month after Colorado became the second state to legalize body composting as a funeral service, interest continues to grow in alternative options for families ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — After opening last year, the world’s largest human composting facility was honored as Washington’s Funeral Home of the Year. Return Home, based in Auburn, Wash., is the first ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — In California, where the massive number of COVID-19 deaths has inundated funeral homes, one legislator hopes the Golden State becomes the next place to legalize the process of ...

If you’ve ever composted your kitchen scraps or garden clippings, you are probably familiar with the basic process. It requires greens (aka your nitrogen-rich leftover broccoli stems or apple peels) ...

Almost as soon as natural organic reduction, or body composting, became legal in Colorado on September 7, 2021, The Natural Funeral – started by Seth Viddal and his partners in 2019 – began composting ...

(CBS4) - When we think of protecting the environment, we think of options we can do while alive, like recycling or conserving water. But did you know there are green end-of-life options? Dawna Agosto ...

KENT, Washington — Somewhere in Kent, tucked anonymously into acres of warehouses and light-industrial workshops, the first full-service human-composting funeral home in the United States is ...

The ultimate in compost-mortem may soon be coming to a funeral home near you. New York state Assembly member Amy Paulin (D-Westchester) and state Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-Queens), have co-sponsored a bill ...