recomposition

California Assembly gets human composting bill

By Funeral Director Daily / February 27, 2020 /

In this article from the Los Angeles Times you can read about Assembly Bill 2592 (AB2592)  that was recently introduced by Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia.  AB2592 would, if passed and signed into law, allow for human composting in the state of California as an eco-friendly alternative to traditional burial or cremation. Human recomposition was passed into…

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Some things we found interesting in 2019

By Funeral Director Daily / December 31, 2019 /

There has been a lot of news in the death care profession in 2019.  There is always the finance news and what is happening with the public companies on the merger and acquisition front.  And, this year we are seeing the fight that StoneMor Partners is putting up to try to become relevant in the…

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Recompose sets sights on Colorado

By Funeral Director Daily / December 18, 2019 /

Recompose, the public benefits corporation that is moving the process of recomposition (human composting) into the commercial realm recently held a forum at the Feldman Mortuary in Denver, Colorado.  The forum was used to introduce the idea of recomposition to the Colorado market and also to announce that two Colorado legislators plan to introduce a…

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Calculating the environmental costs. . . what matters most?

By Funeral Director Daily / October 17, 2019 /

The article begins, “Cremation and ground burial both have carbon footprints that have some people looking for other options for the afterlife.”  That sentence pulled me in but what I went on to watch and read in this video and news story from Chemical & Engineering News pertaining to the “new” death care economy that…

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More on Recomposition

By Funeral Director Daily / May 15, 2019 /

We informed you a couple of weeks ago that the State of Washington’s House and Senate had approved both the ability for final disposition not only for alkaline hydrolysis, but for “recomposition” or what some refer to as “human composting. Just the other day we found this article in the Australian publication, The New Daily,…

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