Will your corpse be waste or compost?

It’s the season finale of Non-toxic, and we’re thinking about endings. In this case, what happens to our bodies when we die. We’re asking why do we cremate people or pump them full of formaldehyde and then trap them in a casket six feet under? Bob Hendrikx, inventor and founder of Loop, thinks there’s a better way to return to the place from whence we came: Mycelium coffins that can compost a human body in a matter of weeks. As Bob likes to say, we’re all going to die one day. Do you want your body to become waste or compost?

Links

The surprising environmental toll of cremation

How the death industry could soon go green.

Mycelium’s newly discovered carbon sink capacities.

Guest bio:
Bob Hendrikx is a bio-designer, architect, and founder of Loop, a green burial company that produces living coffins made of molded mycelium.