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What Lies Beneath

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The Power of Soil to Compost Human Remains

Katrina Spade is the founder of Recompose, a company that composts human remains. She wants to make burials more eco-friendly by harnessing soil's power to decompose a body and then hold onto the carbon that gets released. "The entire planet is supported by the process of decomposition," she says.

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