From the outside, the grocery-store-size facility that sits off a highway a short drive from Baltimore looks like a Costco store. Inside is the equipment for one of the funeral industry’s ...

Maryland is now home to the largest human composting facility in the country. Human composting, also known as natural organic reduction, only became legal in the state two years ago. This facility in ...

BRIANNA ROSS GOT A TOUR AND EXPLAINS HOW THE PROCESS WORKS. THIS IS THE LARGEST HUMAN COMPOSTING FACILITY IN THE WORLD. IT CAN PROCESS. 2000 REMAINS A YEAR, GIVING PEOPLE A GREENER ALTERNATIVE TO ...

The following is an excerpt from “Compost After Reading: A Practical Manifesto for Purposeful Decomposition” by Cassandra Marketos. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this ...

A new nonprofit arm of Hillside Solutions is aiming to make composting from your home more accessible. Hillside Fund, a new nonprofit, announced a curbside composting pickup initiative focused in ...

Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests. After sharing it with her husband, Gerald, he was similarly inspired but much ...

In pursuit of a more eco-friendly future, Green-Wood Cemetery is going back to basics. Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known ...

The town has received a $300,000 grant to install a new composting facility at the Kent transfer station where food scraps will be collected as part of a larger effort by the state to divert organic ...

There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that involves turning loved ones into ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nearly three years after the vast majority of Denver voters approved a ballot initiative requiring restaurants and apartment buildings to recycle and compost ...