It’s all done in seven days and the coffins biodegrade in 45 days, Hendrikx said. The company’s products can be used in traditional burial, cremations and natural burials, Hendrikx added.

Dutch startup Loop Biotech grows mushroom and hemp fiber-based coffins that take a week to make, and about a month and a half to biodegrade in soil. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

A Dutch intrepid inventor is now "growing" coffins by putting mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms, together with hemp fiber in a special mold that, in a week, turns into what could basically ...