‘More and more people don’t want a traditional burial’
With cremations on the rise, firms now offer such things as turning your ashes into artificial reef formations or human compost….
The body is laid to rest in a sealed steel cylinder, together with wood chips, straw and cuttings from a legume plant called alfalfa. Recompose then controls the levels of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, oxygen, heat and moisture in the tube, to enable microbes and bacteria to thrive.