Recycling a Human
Companies are going through their resurgence era by cutting out or lessening the usage of inorganic materials to utilizing biologically symbiotic compounds used to recycle the earth’s natural characteristics rather than always preserving them. Nature, as much as ourselves are simply trying to survive under the crass reality of the ravenous world complexity that we’re living in.
Netherlands-owned, Loop Biotechnologies Company constructed the world’s first biodegradable coffin for traditional burial traditions and urn pots for cremation ceremonies. The POD is designed to fully decompose into the natural soil and provide important enrichments for the longevity and survival of nature. Loop designs their coffin-like pod by weaving together significantly thin strands of mycelium and mushroom components. And the initial breakdown process takes up to 42 days to become one with the earth’s natural processes.
Becoming one with the universe is an extraordinary way of bridging the gap between life and death. It’s the living and breathing coffin. Rather than microorganisms simply being devoured and recycled, they become a culture of necessity. And while their development succeeds in exploitation, they exemplify structure and give purpose and reason to the jungle of life.
Loop Urn
Loop Cacoon
Loop Forestbed
“We are on a mission to make humanity part of the natural cycle of life again, by collaboration with the natural world instead of exploiting it.”
If you’d like to explore Loop’s products, refer to the memo at the end of this article. With a limited product line, yet a world of unlimited possibilities, Loop provides three primary means for traditional burial purposes. The loop living cocoon is derived from local mushrooms and up-cycled hemp fibers that have a 45 day life cycle, rendering this unique product as universally biodegradable starting at $1,086.
As stated by Loop, people will “be remembered by in nature by becoming a source for new seedlings to thrive.” The Loop Earthrise urn pot provides enrichment and longevity to life while allowing it to transform our human nutrients into a source for new life.
The Loop Forestbed is the worlds first living funeral carrier. Originating from their local factory in Delft, Netherlands, this spacious pod provides everything for a sustainable and memorable burial.
