The Departed Could Soon Become Compost in Colorado

Photo caption: Katrina Spade, the co-founder and chief executive of Recompose, monitoring the temperature of a mound of wood chips that contains a human body. Her company offers human composting services in Washington State. Credit… Mike Belleme for The New York Times. Article by Bryan Pietsch. The New York Times – April 29, 2021.

If the governor signs the bill, Colorado would be the second state to legalize the composting of human remains.

DENVER — Food scraps and biodegradable utensils are common fodder for compost, but in Colorado, human remains could soon be transformed into soil too.

The Colorado State Legislature passed a bill on Tuesday that would allow composting of human remains in lieu of traditional processes like burial and cremation. […]

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