Katrina Spade, founder and CEO of Seattle-based Recompose, the self-described “first human composting company in the world,” said in a 2021 video interview that “you’re not human anymore at the end of this process.”

Source: https://therecordnewspaper.org/human-composting-alkaline-hydrolysis-not-acceptable-for-burial-say-u-s-bishops/

Years before Recompose opened, Spade teamed up with Troy Hottle, who has a PhD in sustainable engineering, to calculate the environmental impacts of human composting.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/recompose-legal-human-composting-green-burials-1850113580