Salt Lake Tribune · Apr 22, 2019
Back to earth: Washington state set to allow ‘human composting’
(Elaine Thompson | The Associated Press) Katrina Spade, the founder and CEO of Recompose, displays a sample of the compost material left from the decomposition of a cow, using a combination of wood chips, alfalfa and straw, as she poses in a cemetery in Seattle. Washington is set to become the first state to allow the burial alternative known as "natural organic reduction," which turns a body into soil in a matter of weeks. Olympia, Wash. • Washington appears set to become the first state to allow a burial alternative known as “natural organic reduction” — an accelerated decomposition process that turns bodies into soil within weeks.