I do not intend to compost grandma,” one opponent said of the legislation, which has been broadened to include alkaline ...

Human composting breaks down the body in a closed, reusable vessel, specially filled with carbon-rich materials like wood chips, sawdust, or shredded paper. In order to aid the decomposition ...

The equipment at Westchester's Household Material Recovery Facility in Valhalla is a "self-contained, in-vessel" composting system, which controls air flow and temperature inside the metal ...

Those get pulled out before the contents head out back, where a big batch of compost-in-process sits inside a black machine known as an “in vessel.” “Essentially, it’s a very large version ...

Gov. Brian Kemp recently signed a bill legalizing ‘terramation’ as a method for disposing of a deceased person’s body.

"Any individual that chooses composting over burial or cremation ... Here’s how it works at Recompose: the body is placed in a vessel, surrounded by plant materials. “Our body is primarily going to ...

Human composting is coming up to a House vote for a second year in a row as the Senate appears to let the bill languish.

Forget a tombstone or an urn. You could become a tree or a flower after you die. Georgia is the latest state to green light ...

The new Traverse City composting program, which is a public-private partnership with community composter Carter’s Compost, is ...

Known as "organic human reduction" under Georgia law, human composting is basically turning a body into soil instead of ashes as with typical cremation. According to Brittanica, it typically involves ...