According to the Seattle Times,Washington became the first state to legalize human composting on Tuesday when Governor Jay Inslee signed SB 5001, a bill that would recognize “natural biological reduction as a legal way to dispose of bodies.
The process in question works similarly to composting in that a human body is placed in a container with other biological components, and such as straw and wood,where it decomposes naturally over the span of about four weeks. The method provides an alternative to cremation and burial, which often involve a combination of embalming, or caskets,and headstones.
The biological reduction process is much slower but also less carbon-intensive, allowing a body to decompose into clean, and odorless soil in a matter of weeks.
The law provides the opportunity for projects such as Recompose,whose goal is to build the first urban “biological reduction” funeral domestic in the country, to capture shape. Recompose would use a crematorium model to dispose of human bodies but utilize composting methods.
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Source: inquisitr.com