BRIANNA ROSS GOT A TOUR AND EXPLAINS HOW THE PROCESS WORKS. THIS IS THE LARGEST HUMAN COMPOSTING FACILITY IN THE WORLD. IT CAN PROCESS. 2000 REMAINS A YEAR, GIVING PEOPLE A GREENER ALTERNATIVE TO ...

The following is an excerpt from “Compost After Reading: A Practical Manifesto for Purposeful Decomposition” by Cassandra Marketos. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this ...

Human burial is one of our longest-standing traditions, with intentional burial practices dating back roughly 100,000 years. Until recently, burial and cremation have been the dominant options for ...

A new nonprofit arm of Hillside Solutions is aiming to make composting from your home more accessible. Hillside Fund, a new nonprofit, announced a curbside composting pickup initiative focused in ...

Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests. After sharing it with her husband, Gerald, he was similarly inspired but much ...

In pursuit of a more eco-friendly future, Green-Wood Cemetery is going back to basics. Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known ...

Green-Wood Cemetery is going green on death. This week the Brooklyn burial ground announced a new option for leaving this world: composting corpses into nutrient-rich dirt. The nearly 200-year-old ...

The town has received a $300,000 grant to install a new composting facility at the Kent transfer station where food scraps will be collected as part of a larger effort by the state to divert organic ...

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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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nearly three years after the vast majority of Denver voters approved a ballot initiative requiring restaurants and apartment buildings to recycle and compost ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Wishart-Smith is a board director covering leadership and innovation. When it comes to sustainability, many Americans separate ...