The Denver Post
A dummy covered in plant material rests on a cradle in front of an open vessel at the Recompose facility in Kent, Washington.
Photo courtesy Recompose
Colorado is a couple of votes and one signature away from joining only Washington state in offering people the option to turn their human bodies into pounds of soil after death. It uses little energy and would cost about as much a cremation, but it would take some time for funeral homes or crematories to implement before Coloradans could use it.
If SB21-006 seems familiar, that’s because it didn’t make it through the session last year because of COVID, so sponsors decided to bring it back. They have company in other states, with California, Oregon and New York also considering human composting this year.
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