Katrina Spade turns people into soil. At Recompose, a Washington funeral home, Spade offers an alternative to traditional burial and cremation — human composting. Recompose uses wood chips, alfalfa and straw to break down the body into a material much like typical garden soil. The process takes 1/8 the energy output of conventional burial or cremation, and saves one metric ton of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. Spade hopes that this can have a small but meaningful impact on the envi

What does regeneration mean to you? 🌱 To Katrina Spade, it means returning to the soil. At her Washington funeral home Recompose, Spade offers an alternative to traditional burial and cremation: human composting. Not only does the result offer one cubic yard of soil, but the process saves one metric ton of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. Learn more on the newest episode of Human Elements, now streaming on the Cascade PBS app. https://bit.ly/3K0D0Ls | Cascade PBS

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