Sydney woman becomes first in Australia to be buried in mushroom coffin
- A Sydney woman has become the first person in Australia to be buried in a coffin grown from mushrooms, in a funeral that organisers say reflects a wider shift towards environmentally friendly ways of being laid to rest.
- Carolyn, a woman in her 70s whose surname has been withheld at her family’s request, received a funeral service in Faulconbridge on Friday before being buried at Springwood Cemetery in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales.
- The coffin was developed by the Dutch company called Loop Biotech, and is grown from mycelium, the root-like network of a mushroom colony, mixed with hemp fibre
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- A Sydney woman has become the first person in Australia to be buried in a coffin grown from mushrooms, in a funeral that organisers say reflects a wider shift towards environmentally friendly ways of being laid to rest.
- Carolyn, a woman in her 70s whose surname has been withheld at her family’s request, received a funeral service in Faulconbridge on Friday before being buried at Springwood Cemetery in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales.
- The coffin was developed by the Dutch company called Loop Biotech, and is grown from mycelium, the root-like network of a mushroom colony, mixed with hemp fibre
Sources: The Independent