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“Maybe I am the only architect to create a final house,” says Pop Hindrikx freedom. Cemeteries and sides of the dead, may be the only Hendricx to make a final house using mushrooms.
Hendrikx is the founder and CEO of Loop Biotech, a company that makes boxes of fungi, which is the fibrile root structure for mushrooms. In June, the first burial was buried in North America that used one of the biological boxes in Min.
“He always said he wanted to be buried in the forest.”
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Hendrikx started trying to make a “live house” of Mycelium, a substance that can be used Self -recovery structures If the fibers continue to grow. While he was studying architecture at Delpht University of Technology, one says I asked him what would happen if his grandmother happened in that house.
Remember the answer to the answer and then thinks – “Oh my God,” there will be a lot of positivity to the earth. “
The coffin, which is called Loop Biotech, is a “live cocoon” and sells about 4000 dollars, made entirely of fungi and can be cultivated in seven days. The vital identification can then be completely in about 45 days, according to the company. The body inside, however, takes longer. In the typical coffin, it can be Decades before the entire body decomposition. But since fungi can help break the dead organic matter, this time is short -two to three years in a living cocoon, says Hendricx.
“I personally hate the idea of the body that is lying there on the ground,” says Maria Ancker, who put his father, Mark Anker, to rest in a living cocoon in Main. “I don’t want to lie on the ground, but I am happy to become part of the soil and feed the plants.” I heard about Loop Biotech in TED Talk years ago and decided to call the company the next day to receive a call that her father had passed.
“He would have got a kick from him, from the fact that he was the first (who was buried in a living cocoon),” Maria added. Her family is not a single chance. Maria described a preliminary picture of her father sitting on the Volkswagen Bus green on his way to Woodstock, and she looks at traffic congestion with perspectives, shortly after Marmaria’s births and returned home from the hospital. “Don’t be ridiculous”, there is no meaning in wasting both tickets, Maria says that her mother told her father.
“He has always said he wanted to be buried in the forest,” says Maria. “As a younger person, this is what I am terrified. I am like,” but how do I remember you? “… in this way, he is buried naked in the forest.” She will have something there to remember; The family planted a souvenir with some of the favorite perennials of Mark on the ground where he was buried. Looop Biotech says the mushroom coffin will help enrich the soil below.
Marsya also finds the chemicals used in “total” mummification. The desire to reduce waste and pollution is another reason for some people who move away from standard boxes or burning corpses.
Traditional burial in the United States uses about 4.3 million gallons of embalming liquid, 20 million feet of solid wood, and 1.6 million tons of enhanced concrete every year, according to what he said. Green Burial Board.
“The first burial of the living cocoon in the United States (which follows thousands using mushrooms in Loop Biotech in Europe),” says Sam Barr, part of the Board of Directors of the Green Burial Board, “There is excitement and energy about green burial.”
The “green” burial does not have to combine mushrooms, of course. The goal is primarily to encourage decomposition and use natural materials in a sustainable way, says Bar. This can also be achieved using other materials that collapse more easily, such as woven sea herb or bamboo. “Green is a spectrum,” says Barr.
From the past, the architect kept a comfortable position with his living cocoon. Aside from the potential environmental benefits, the mushrooms are also soft to touch and rotate freedom. “Instead of existence, like, a difficult coffin, you now have something that you can already embrace,” says Hendricx. “It is really great for the sadness process.”