In 2020, Recompose was the first U.S. company to develop the technology needed for the commercial composting of human bodies, ...

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Vermicomposting — a.k.a. worm composting — is a compact way to turn your food scraps into worm castings (worm poop), a moist, crumbly soil amendment known as garden gold because it provides important ...

There's growing interest in alternatives to traditional burials and in making the process more environmentally friendly in ...

The eco-friendly alternative to traditional burial or cremation transforms the human body into nutrient rich soil Last December, the country's first funeral home offering natural organic reduction — ...

Composting toilets use aerobic decomposition to break down human waste instead of flushing it away in watery sewage. Most don't use water, so they don't need to be connected to a city wastewater ...

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Tucked into a nondescript warehouse development in Howard County, along winding roads lined with semi trucks, sits a facility dedicated to the dead. It offers a newly legal servic ...

The company is pushing to legalize human composting operations in NC, with Charlotte a possibility for a new $10-million ...

Cincinnatians diverted 96,000 pounds of food from the landfill during a composting pilot program over the past year.