When someone dies, there are a few options for how to lay someone to rest like a straight burial, cremation, and now something a bit more unique. Known as "organic human reduction" under Georgia law, ...

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 ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

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 ...

Dear Eartha, I know composting is good for our environment. But outside of making soil healthier for plants, what’s the real deal with composting? How does it actually benefit the community?

Katrina Spade is the founder and CEO of Recompose, a company offering human composting as an alternative to traditional burials or cremations. As part of our TED Radio Hour+ summer series, Spade takes ...

Kristi Gorrell, 4-H Youth and Families Supervisor from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County, talks to students about composting Tuesday at DCMO BOCES Alan D. Pole Campus in Norwich.

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 ...