Katrina Spade | Source | CEO & Founder at Recompose
Katrina Spade
Katrina (she/her) has been an entrepreneur and designer since 2002. She has over 15 years of experience in project management, finance, and architecture, with a focus on human-centered, ecological solutions. While earning her Masters of Architecture, Katrina invented a system to transform the dead into soil, which is now patent-pending. In 2014, she founded the 501c3 Urban Death Project to bring attention to the problem of a toxic, dis-empowering funeral industry. In 2017, she founded Recompose, a Public Benefit Corporation.
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Recompose
CEO & Founder
started May 2017
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Washington state legalizes human composting | DW | 22.05.2019
The US state of Washington became the first to legalize human composting as an eco-friendly alternative to burial and cremation. The Catholic Church denounced the process as undignified.
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Compost your departed loved one and save the planet, L.A. lawmaker says
"Human composting," an eco-friendly alternative to traditional burial or cremation, was approved in Washington state last year.
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When I started this several years ago I was shocked at how many people find this not only palatable but comforting and meaningful.
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Recomposition offers an alternative to embalming and burial or cremation that is natural, safe, sustainable, and will result in significant savings in carbon emissions and land usage.
