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Recompose, a com- pany in Kent, Wash- ington, now offers an environmentally friendly al- ternative to traditional burial: human composting.
Human Composting: The New Dead And Buried
According to Recompose, the “finished soil is very sim- ilar to the topsoil bought at a local nursery.”
down was terrifying,” Boo- throyd said. “I felt explo- sions in my mouth followed by burning pain.”
she found photos of him having sex with a younger, thinner woman on his phone, according to police.
Customers create a smell sample by wearing a plain white T-shirt enhanced with odor-absorbing activated charcoal for 24 hours, then mail it to Ishida’s lab north of Tokyo. For about $150, Ishi- da will subject the sample to GC-MS analysis (a technolo- gy used to identify unknown chemicals) and produce a report, which can include such descriptions as “old-age smell” or “onions starting to rot.” He says about half of his customers are given the all- clear, with no obvious offen- sive odors.
“This is a very controlled process, completely driven by microbes,” explains CEO Katrina Spade. “It’s fueled by plant material and monitored in a very rigorous way.”
A spokesperson for Cost- cutter said the Fun Snaps would be “(removed) from the confectionery section with immediate effect.”
Local media reported the husband was eventually able to disarm his wife and clari- fy that SHE was the woman in the photos, which were taken when they were dat- ing.
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“Getting the facts is a huge relief for (clients),” he explains.
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Lisa Boothroyd, 48, of Rugby in Warwickshire, England, got a shock when the handful of popping can- dies she ate turned out to be small novelty fireworks used as noisemakers instead. The box of Fun Snaps was shelved among other candies at her local Costcutter store, she told the Daily Mail on Jan. 18, and the packaging was similar, but the result was painful: Boothroyd re- ported chemical burns on her lips and gums and a cracked tooth.
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