View of a part of a Loop Cocoon, a living coffin, made of mycelium, at YES! Delft Incubator of TU laboratory in Delft, Netherlands September 21, 2020. REUTERS/Esther Verkaik
DELFT (Reuters) - A Dutch start-up has created a biodegradable "living coffin" made of a fungus, instead of wood, which it says can convert a decomposing human body into key nutrients for plants.
The company, Loop, says its casket is made of mycelium, the underground root structure of mushrooms, and filled with a bed of moss to stimulate decomposition.
