Tucked into a nondescript warehouse development in Howard County, along winding roads lined with semi trucks, sits a facility ...

As calls to legalise human composting grow, there are signs Australia’s funeral cultures are already changing.

Ashes to ashes, dust to plant feed: an Australian state is edging closer to a greener alternative to traditional burials ...

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An Elkridge, Maryland, company is offering options beyond burial or cremation — through what it says is the first human composting facility on the East Coast.

Depending on where you live — and die — you might have a new choice available to you for how your loved ones will carry out your final wishes. In the past two years, bills that legalize human ...

New Jersey is offering a new option when saying final goodbyes to a loved one – human composting. It works by placing the body inside a vessel that turns it into nutrient-rich soil that can either be ...

When Stephanie Burris drives by graveyards near her home in Boulder County, Colorado, she sees thousands of tiny landfills: Concrete boxes filled with non-biodegradable caskets, which are lined with ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to legalize human composting as an environmentally-friendly alternative to burials and cremations. The legislation, signed into law last week by New Jersey Gov.

August Elliott says he’d never thought much about what he’d like done with his body after his death. Then, about two years ago, Elliott’s father died after a long battle with cancer. As he grieved, ...

The house plants in Dianne Thompson-Stanciel’s Tinton Falls home are thriving with the help of a new compost. The leaves on her monstera deliciosa are a bright evergreen, their vines climbing taller ...