The 'Urban Death Project' Wants to Turn You Into Soil

While the "Urban Death Project" may sound like the title of Hollywood's latest horror film, it's something else entirely—though perhaps not less macabre. 

It's a Seattle-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has a novel idea when it comes to making burials greener: composting human remains. It calls its system "Recomposition" and says it "transforms bodies into soil so that we can grow new life after we die." 

As the Moscow-Pullman Daily News reports, the team is currently in the process of getting the necessary OKs to move forward. Most recently, they learned they'll be granted wiggle room by the state Department of Ecology regarding permitted "air pollution sources," a step on the way toward their intended pilot experiment: composting remains in a portion of Washington State University's composter.

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