A look at the first human composting facility

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Earth funeral works with funeral homes to get remains and wraps them in a biodegradable shroud material. Then they put it in vessels like this with organic mulch, wood chips, and wildflowers, and use technology to control conditions inside the vessel, accelerating the decomposition process and turning remains into nutrient-rich soil. It's a gentle natural process that returns you to nature. And that's ultimately why people choose it. Families can donate the soil to conservation projects or keep it to use.

[00:00:30]>> Existing funeral practice is not particularly great for the environment.

[00:00:34]Um you've got burial which um uses uh um non-degradable wood, metal, concrete, embalming fluid, which is ultimately just toxic chemical, um and also takes up valuable urban land. That then led to the rise in cremation, um but cremation is a fossil-fuel driven process that very overtly emits CO2.