Earth’s Tom Harries: “Turning people into soil”

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Earth’s Tom Harries: “Turning people into soil”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:42:25
• Published: 2023-03-10 04:00

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tom Harries to talk about his previous cremation startup (3:20), how he got into human composting (5:00), the problems with burial and cremation (8:20), society’s changing attitude toward funerals (13:50), perfecting the microbial breakdown process (14:50), controlling temperature (21:10), using human remains to reforest land (24:20), raising $10m (27:15), why it takes 45 days to compost a body (33:05), building a household death brand (34:40), and how he got into the death business (36:50).

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