Biodegradable Burial Pod Turns Your Body Into a Tree

CNN, Tiny Fox Lab

Italian designers Raoul Bretzel and Anna Citelli created the Capsula Mundi — “world’s capsule” in Latin — and it’s an egg-shaped, organic casket that’s suitable for ashes, too. Once buried, they say, the biodegradable plastic shell breaks down and the remains provide nutrients to a sapling planted right above it. – Tiny Fox Lab Facts

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Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/03/world/eco-solutions-capsula-mundi/index.html