Cleaning can be a daunting task, but it’s possible to get an immaculate house in one day. We asked a professional for tips on ...

Soiled toilet paper is not safe to compost, but the cardboard interior of toilet paper and paper towel tubes are perfectly compostable. In compost piles, these items count as carbon-rich ingredients ...

I was a little surprised by the seating. Having been shown to a table that was almost out of the dining room and en route to ...

This one-year timelapse video documents the build of an outdoor bathroom in the wilderness, featuring a compost toilet, sink, ...

The largest center for human composting in the U.S. just opened in Maryland and it’s highlighting how Americans are rethinking how they want to dispose of their bodies when they die. Human composting ...

From the outside, the grocery-store-size facility that sits off a highway a short drive from Baltimore looks like a Costco store. Inside is the equipment for one of the funeral industry’s ...

The following is an excerpt from “Compost After Reading: A Practical Manifesto for Purposeful Decomposition” by Cassandra Marketos. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – A small composting company in Traverse City increased its food scrap collection from 21,000 pounds to more than 125,000 pounds in a single year – a jump that may signal how ...

Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests. After sharing it with her husband, Gerald, he was similarly inspired but much ...

In pursuit of a more eco-friendly future, Green-Wood Cemetery is going back to basics. Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that involves turning loved ones into ...